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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
OHerMOrk...The Breakdown.

| met q man some time ago who used
to travel in business, and almost passed
his life upon the rail. He came home
one evening, and walking across his
dining he staggered like a
drunken man. Uncharitable people
who did not know his habits might have
thought him intoxicated. He sank on
his chair all the rest of his life. He
was completely paralyzed in his lower
limbs. The ineessant travelling on the
rail had at last proved too much for his
nervous system. Hence the collapsei
and l have strong impression that
other collapses might be traced to a
similar source. l knew of lawyer
who was in a great rush of business.
He liked his fees; but like all men who
succeed, he liked business thoroughly
for its own sake. He was unable to re-
fuse business; and indeed to refuse
business is the hardest trial which can
happen to any professioal man. His
mistake was, that he did not provide
himself with adequate assistance. The
ill-treated brain took to softening, and
then all business came to an end.
knew of a man who was enormously
wealthy. In addition to the constant
employment which his own vest prop
ertY gave him, he was trustee for ever
so many widows and orphans and char
tiles. He worked hard at accounts till
the small hours in the morning. A boy
clerk at fifteen shillings q week might
have done it all for him. But he pre-
ferred " doing his own work himself, "
and accordingly he had to quit this in
feriOr existence, where such condition
of things is not always possible. One
of the best known men in the country
once told me that he was going to take
a six weeks holiday at the seaside. |
was rejoiced to hear it. No man better
deserved or more required such hoIi-
day. Then he told me that he was 60
ing to take his new book with him to
the seaside, and hoped to have it ready
for publication by the time his holiday
was over. l expostulated with him. l
explained that he was only exchanging
one kind of hard work for still harder
kind of hard work. But he took the
advice of what is often mans worst
ounsellor-himself. His book was
successful, but he never knew of the
success, London SOCGetQ.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
Victoria ON Her Throne.

Her Majesty acknowledges the grave
greeting Of her lieges by scarcely more
than a glance of the eye. The head
bent slightly, perhaps, but / am not
sure, She, too, walks slowly; there is
no vulgar hurry about any part of the
business. AS she rounds the corner of
the dais her face is turned full toward
our gallery. 1t is the business of court
iers to say that the Queen looks always
well. For my part, | thought she had
grown gray since last l saw her, and
that the lines of the temples and about
the mouth were cut deeper than ever.
1t can never have been more than a
comely face, and there is nothing,
strictly speaking, in its contour, and
nothing in the figure which can be
called beautiful or noble. What strikes
you, nevertheless, is the air of author
ity and the air of stern sincerity which
sits upon this royal brow and marks the
least gesture of the Queen. The sad
ness of the face is profoundly touching;
the dignity with which the burden
the all but intolerable burden of her
life-is borne, appeals to your respect.
Sheis here, they say, to mark once
more her sympathy with the First Min
ister@of the Grown; and with the party
which, under his guidance, has been
leading this country so strange dance
these three years past But politics are
forgotten in such a presence; and any
criticism one has to offer is put decentIy
aside so long as the woman and the
Queen is here.
When she had seated herself upon
the royal robes spread over the throne
which she might have worn one
would think-there is again a pause,
almost solemn, and there is time to OBJ
serve the gown which the Majesty of
England has on. The Majesty and
Beauty of England are face to face, for
the Princess sits nearly opposite; and as
the Princess is perhaps the best dressed
woman III the room, so is the Queen al
most the worst. Her gOwnis ofvel7et,
with broad, longitudinal streaks of
or ermine running down the
skirt and horizontal trimmings to match
about the body. Butyou need not stop
to look at it; the Koh-i-noor glows in
her corsage, and a miniature crown of
shines above the stony head.
The Princess Beatrice, in blue velvet,
stands by her mother side, with traces
of the womanly attractiveness which
belongs to her sister Louise, now reign
ing over the hearts of our Canadian
friends. There was some maneuVering
with footstools and arrangement of
trains, and the Queens veil had to be
7xtricated from the netted work of the
chrome. Then the Queen said Pray,
be seated" and once more came
3ilence.-G. W. Snaa5Iey, In NeaO York
Tribune.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04

is means of catching cold, which fire.
quently brings on rheumatismal con-
gestions of the nerve centers, and we
are persuaded that even the affections
q trtgOre of the respiratory organs are
often due to this mode of dressing, for
it is known that the exposure of the
arms and shoulders, though perhaps less
frequently than the wetting or chilling
of the feet, give rise tocolds. "Keep the
feetwarm" isavery oldhygienic maxim,
Notwithstanding which children's necks
are better covered than their legs and
feet The influence of cold upon the
lower extremities certainly reacts upon
the spinal circulation, and we know
how frequently children are exposed to
that almost incurable affection --stroph-
ic paralysis. Every time (says DR..
Onimus) that we have been able to
trace exactly the history of such cases
we have found chill as the cause of
this affection. The vessels of the spinal
cord, and particularly those of the gray
which are the most numer-
GUS, are congested by reflex action, and
thus bring on the various symptoms of
paralysis. -SGnitGTg Record.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
Winter Dresses for Children.

For some years past it has been the
fashion to leave portions of children's s
limbs uncovered. Mothers give as an
excuse for this sacrifice to appearances
that it hardens the children against
changes of temperature. Without de-
nying this happy influence in some
cases, it is certain that in many others
that it is most fatal, and compromises
the health and life of the children.
Common sense sufices to show how
dangerous is this practice, for, as
Nine. de Sevigne said in letter to her
daughter: elf your son is strong, a
rough education is very good; but if he
is delicate, | have heard that in wish
ing to make children robust we kill
them" The recent.researches of Oni-
mus and Brown-Sequard on the dis
eases of nerve-centres arising from sur
face impressions, have given new force
and a clearer explanation to facts which
have long been observed by physicians
and which amply confirm the saying of
Nine. de Sevigne. Moreover, it is an
error to believe that children are less
susceptible to cold than adults; the con-
trary is the truth, and we very much
doubt whether adults could thus
90 about with naked limbs without ex-
periencing serious Consequences. We
repeat that the exposure of the lower
exTemities to all Observation-Disclosures
sAsffbA8 FsEA taA #N&# 3
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
Curfosities Of the Conscience Fund.

At irregular intervals a paragraph
appears announcing the receipt by the
Treasury Department of contribution
to the " conscience fund" These con-
tributions nowadays vary from one
dollar to between one and two hun
dred. A few years ago they were much
larger. The money comes from all
parts of the country, Philadelphia and
New York leading in the number of
contributions. A member of Congress
from New York, when Mr.. Bristow was
in the Treasury, referring to this fact,
remarked that it showed conclusively
that New York and Pennsylvania were
the most religious States in the Union.
Mr.. Bristow replied that in his opinion
it only showed that those two States
had done the most stealing. The money
which comes in from 0Onscience-strick-
en- people is on account of frauds on the
customs, frauds under the old Income
Tax law, or on the revenue. The in
come tax having been abolished some
years ago, contributions on its account
are very few now.
The first record of money received by
the Government from repentance de-
frauders was in 1868. When General
Spinner was Treasurer he kept the ac-
count separately, but the practice was
discontinued. The money now, as it
has been for the greater number of
years since 1868, when the contribu-
lions began, is turned into the Treasury
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
Commencing with New Crops.

1t is wise and well to occasionally
substitute new crops for those that have
long been grown on farms. A change
of crops is favorable to keeping up the
fertility of soils. Farmers who are
poor, especially those who occupy new
farms, are obliged to raise those crops
that can be produced without large
expenditure of money. They have not
the means to plant vineyards or hop
vines, or to engage in the culture OF
those plants that require expensive
machinery to raise or costly buildings
to protect after they are harvested.
They must generally be content to pro-
duce corn, potatoes and small grains
for several years after they open up
new farms. These produce crops the
same year after they are planted or
sown, so that immediate return is real
lied from them. They may also be
produced most advantageously and
generally the most abundantly from
new land.
After land has been in standard crops
several years, the yield of them becomes
smaller unless extra pains are taken to
supply manures. A change of crops,
therefore, becomes necessary, as the soil
is robbed of certain elements Of fertili-
ty. AS farmers become fOrehanded, they
naturally wish to produce crops that
will yield larger return than corn,
grain, and potatoes. They know that
field planted to grapeVines or hops
will produce succession of crops with.
comparatively little labor. With cap
ital to purchase machinery, they may
find the raising of broom-corn very
profitable. With means to erect cur
ing-houses, they can make money by
engaging in the culture of tobacco.
Observation shows that the produc-
ton of certain crops is confined almost
entirely to the older sections of the
country, where the soil has been long
cultivated, and the farmers are gener-
ally wealthy.
Many farmers err in commencing to
raise new crop with very little knowl-
edge on the subject. They read glow
ing account of the success of one farmer
and hasten to make small fortune in
the way he did. Perhaps the only in
formation they have on the subject was
derived from short newspaper article.
They find at the end of the season that
they planted the crop at the wrong
time, in the wrong kind of soil, and in
the wrong way, and thatthe cultivation
and harvesting were alike wrong. They
spent the season in acquiring informa-
ton that they might have gained had
they purchased a book, consulted a
person who had experience, or hired a
man who was familiar with raising the
crop. Another cause of failure in pro-
ducing new crops is attempting to do
too much the first season. As rule,
it is best to commence on a small scale
and to increase as one acquires infor-
nation by experience.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04

as miscellaneous receipts. Repeated
attempts have been made by members
Of Congress to secure appropriations to
be paid out Of the conscience fund. If
the money goes into the Treasury as
miscellaneous receipts, it ceases to be a
separate fund, and cannot be drawn
upon. 1t is not known how much the
conscience money now amounts to.
The total amount from December /,
1868, to June 30, 1874, as given in the
Treasurer's report, for the latter year
was S162,914. Since then no account
of the contributions has been kept.
Treasurer Gilfllan, however, estimates
that the money now foots up $3.50, 900.
The contributions, as a rule, come
through the mail with note saying
for what purpose the money is forward
ed. Very frequently penitential ex-
planation is included. Some of these
explanations are very serious and some
very laughable. The ladies contribute
good deal. They repent principally
over false returns made under the in
come tax and for having evaded the
duties upon articles of dress.
A lady visited this country in 1864
from England. She smuggledin while
here a silk dress pattern. A short time
ago she wrote confessing the evasion
of customs duties and sending S15 to
clear her conscience. She gave the
value of the dress and wanted the bal.
ance sent back to her if the duties did
not amount to S15. The customs diVis-
ion of the Treasury made a computa-
ton based upon the duties charged in
1864, and found that the lady owed ex-
actly $3.50. The balance was RENTED.
Ministers of the Gospel are very fire.
quently the medium through which the
money is refunded. While admins
tering spiritual consolation, the con-
fession of defrauding the Government
is made, and restitution follows. The
clergy transmit the money without
mentioning names. The largest amount
ever received as one contribution was
$4,000 in United States 7-30 notes.
This contribution was announced in
the newspapers. Many and ingenious
attempts were made to get this money
out of the Treasury. One man said
that his father made the contribution,
and that he was crazy. The contribu-
tor of it had carefully cut out the num-
bers of the notes so as to make it i'm
possible to discover from the books who
had sent them. - Washington Star.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04
COlOring Recipes.

Brown on Cotton or Woolen. For
ten pounds of cloth or yarn, take two
pounds cutch, put into cold water sufi-
cient to cover the goods, heat until dis
solved; then add one-fourth pound blue
vitriol, previously dissolved. Put in
the goods and scald one hour or more,
wiring from the dye. Dissolve six ounces
bichromate of potash in hot water, put
in the goods, let simmer fifteen minutes
and boil five minutes, stirring con-
stantly. Dissolve the Clutch in iron and
the bichromate in brass. Rinse thor
oughly in clear water or in suds.
Yellow on Cotton. dissolve one-half
pound sugar of lead in hot water and
one-fourth pound bichromate of potash
in cold water-both in wooden vessels.
Dip first in lead water, wiring, then dip
in potash and wiring out. Repeat until
the desired shade is obtained. This is
for FIVE pounds Of goods.
Orange on Cotton. n.-Take a lump Of
lime as large as your fist, pour on to it
pail of boiling water, let it settle,
pour off the water and while boiling,
dip in cloth colOred yellow as above,
and you will have beautiful orange.
Blue on Cotton. Take two ounces
oxalic acid; two ounces Prussian blue
and dissolve in separate pals Of hot
water. Dip the goods first in the acid,
then in the blue. Wiring dry and re-
peat until the color suits.
For Green.-Dip blue into a yellow
dye as above, and it will produce
green.
To Dye Scarlet.-To every pound of
yarn take one gallon soft water, one
ounce of pulVerized cochineal; two
ounces cream-of-tartar; one ounce solu-
ton of tin. When the water boils put
in the cream tartar, then the cochi-
neal. When dissolved, add solution of
tin; put the yarn in, stirring it all the
time, let it boil fifteen minutes, air it
once or twice, rinse in soft water, and
you will have splendid color.
Salmon on Cotton. pound cop
peras; one-haH pound saleratus, dis
solve in hot water. Dip first in cop
peras and air five minutes, then in
saleratus, and dry in the hot SUM-
Mrs. 3. II. DuttOn, IN Country Gentle
man.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04

A SPECIAL dispatch to the Black
Hills Pioneer of recent date reads as
follows. 1.-THE Chinese laundrymen,
including Jong Rea, who have a con-
tract to wash shirt a month for Ed
wards, of the Fargo argus, had just
succeeded, after several hours of labor
with a powerful steam derrick, in get
ting it hung out to dry, when they were
arrested by the Marshal for putting up
a circus tent in the city limits without
license.n
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-03-04

THE cable informs us that " Tekke-
Turcomans at Dashberdi menace the
line betwixt Chatte and Tchikislar. q
We have been tremblingly anticipating
this news for months. War is aterri-N
Bile thing. 1t develops hard feelings
and harder mes.-NOTriStOV9g Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-21

CouGHs-'; Brorns Bronchial 7roches''
are used with advantage to alleviate COUGHs,
SORE THROAT, HOARsENEss and BRONCHIAL
AFFECTIONS. For thirty years these Troches
have been in use, with annual increasing IA
vOr. They are not new and untried, but,
having been tested by wide and constant use
for nearly an entire generation, they have
attained well-merited rank among the few
staple remedies Of the age.
THE Bromn's Bronchial Tro-
ches" act directly on the organs of the voice.
They have an extraordinary effect in all dis
orders of the throat and Larynx, restoring a
healthy tone when relaxed, either from cold
or over-exerton of the voice, and produce a
clear and distinction enunciation. Speakers
and Singers find the troches useful.
CoUGH, Cold, CArARRH or Sore Throat,
requires immediate attention. rs neglect of
ten-times results in some ineuroble Lung Dis
ease. ''Bropn's Bronchial Troches" will al
most invariably give relief. limitations are
offered for sale, many of which are injurious.
The genuine "BroWB's Bronchial T-ochss
are sold only in boxes.
ttu. th&freow&weow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-21
Political.

The Southern mocking-bird is piping a
mellifluous tune. 1t usually sings this way
after an election.
tits probable that bill will soon be intro
duced in Congress to disenfranchise the Nor
mons living in polygamy.
Gen. Fairchild, our Minister to Spain, will
return home next spring, for the purpose of
educating his daughter.
congressman Sloane of Iowa, and Farr of
New Hampshire, who have died in little
over year. both occupied the same seat in
the House.
No wonder Boss Kelly is mad. He has
been in the habit of disbursing $50, 900, 600
each year, and most of it went into the hands
OF his Tammany followers.
1t remains TO be seen if the House, which
refused a decent appropriation for coast de-
fences. will vote the 81 800. 900 ''starter" for
the Mississippi river Improvements.
The Southern Brigadier in the House was
willing to be courteous to Gen. Grant, but
the average Northern Bourbon showed that
he cannot forget the past.
Sonafor-elect Malone of Virginia says
ssfree schools, free suffrage and faithful and
honest adherence to the terms agreed on when
Virginia was restored to her position IN the
Union" is his doctrine, and he calls upon the
people to adhere to the Sentiments to which
they were pledged at Appomattox Court
House, and by the acceptance Of the constitu-
tiouai amendments and the reconstruction
acts" This is new departure indeed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-21

Chicago merchants report business unex-
pectedly good.
The Parnell defence fund now amounts to
over 10000.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt owns the fastest trot-
ter in the world.
Lord Beaconstield made about 80 cents
word out of his Observation-Disclosures.
The readiest and best way to find out what
future duty will be is to do present duty
Several thousand pounds sterling in gold
were purchased in London. Friday. for ship
ment to New York.
One of Georgia's millionaires. Mr.. John IL.
Inman. emerged from the Confederate army
penniless.
Mrs Bayard Taylor is busily engaged in
translating the prose works of her late hus-
band into German.
At the Dead Letter office in Washington is
registered letter containing Sl51, but with
no address upon it.
II is stated that the family of J. ". Mackey
Tie bonanza king. live in Paris at the rate OF
nearly 81 900 900 per annrm.
Charles Powell Clinch. the only surviving
brother of Mrs. Alexander T. Stewart, and
the only Assistant Collector of the Port that
New York ever had, is dead.
Mrs. Senator Logan superintends her hus-
bands correspondence, debating to sfeno-
grapher for hours at time. She also assists
the Senator in selecting materials for reports
and addresses.
Agents of the South and North Alabama
Railroad are giving forty acres of land to
every one who will settle on it and make the
proper improvements, and agree to live on
the land four years.
Subscriptions for the international exposl-
ton at New York of 1888 have been small,
and it is stated BY the committee that the sue
cess of the enterprise depends entirely upon
the subscription of VIM. II. Vanderbilt.
The taxable real estate of Jersey City is
S5S, 800 900. but within the limits of the city
the Pennsylvania, Erie and Central Railroads
have property valued at S3l 100000 which
escapes taxation under State laws.
An ingenious machine has been devised for
separating the sound cranberries in a barrel
from the unsound. They are poured in at
the rate of sixty barrels an hour. and the
sound ones, having elasticity, bound over a
barrier, while those decayed remain.
Statistics presented at the Congregational
Council in ST. Louis, showed that during the
past nine years since the Council was formed,
New England has given Sl.900,000 in lega-
cies while outside the New England States.
the total legacies foot up only S276,00O.
Mr. Parsons of Detroit. at the meeting of
the National Board of Trade. stated that he
had visited many consulates abroad, and that
in almost every case our consular represen-
tative is competent, cultured gentleman
starving on the inadequate salary paid him by
our government.