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Connecticut western news., 1885-07-08
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All.
 At Home and Abroad
TWO " EEKS.
A Review of General Grants Case by Dr.
 DouGlas-His Increasing Weakness.

MT. McGREaoR, June SO.-It is two weeks o-day since General Grant was moved from Now York. On the day he came the tempera- ture was 89 degrees This morning it is 55 degrees at the cottage. Dr. Douglas was asked this morning to review the fortnight that General Grant has passed upon the mountains.
 ''His life has been prolonged by the invigorat- ing air here instead of the great heat of New York. The disease has progressed in the natural way, which is one of increasing de- bility. The General was likely to die at any time in New York, and had he remained there instead of coming here he would in all human probability have expired before this. His present weakness is the natural result of the disease. He is each day less strong, and though the step from day to day is scarcely perceptiole, the aggregate of fourteen days becomes noticeable. Two weeks ago General Grant left the city. If he were in New York to-day, he could not be moved here. His strength to day is not equal to such journey. Now, if you ask me when the end will probably be, cannot tell; none can tell. He is growing weaker and weaker, and at last the point of exhaustion will be reached. That IS all, and nobody can say when that will be. |"
 Referring to the local conditions, Dr. Douglas said the mouth and throat were un- usually clear because of quiet and close atten- tion during two days past. But when this is said, it must be remembered that the tongue is 20 swollen as to render articulation difficult and thorough examination impossible. The N of voice is due partly to inflammation of the ioA Nords and partly to lassitude and taxation vocaf~. -ts. The glandular swelling is decreas- of the paa "ancerous knotting of the glands cd, but She - but is becoming harder con- is not Abated, kness of the patient now is sts9tly. The weaS If ability and desire to evident fn ms lacR & as he did ten days walk the cottage piazza 1 on the Generai,s nst nsrt to economize his strenh 'n, & ana tnere IS Iessened interest in his literary
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VaIue oR Hen Rnfuac.

The refuse from henfroosts is a very stimulating fertilizer whentrotted suf- flcSently fine to go into ftne powder. This can, in small amounts be applied in contact with seed, and iftifne enough may be drilled with 1t A very good practice is to mix hen irfuse with the commercial fertilizers, especially bone dissolved in suiphuric acid. There is usually some free acid in the phosphate,
 which readily combines with the nitro ,Ten. If ashes are used in this mixture, it should be only when the seed is about to be covered. We have put dry wo,. d ashes in the drill with hen material aa1d phosphate, and believe 1t a good practice. The ashes clean the drill from sticky phosphate, and though there Is 8, 0me smell of am- monia, indicating its loss, yet there is the satisfaction of kL flowing that the ashes are in contact ". ith the manure under the soil, where n,o loss of am- monia can occur. The very reasons why ashes and manures should never be composted together above ground furnish arguments to placing them.in contact with each other under the sun face.-CuLticdtor.
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Use tho Brush on tho Cows.

But few farmers ever thinki it ne- cessary that a cow should be brushed. We have seen neighbors laugh and ridicule what they called our over niceness and fussiness, when thetcows were curried and brushed twice asday, with as much care as was given to the horses. "Whati curry cowP Never heard tell of such thingP' But a COW needs 1t, even more than a.horse; and for several reasons. A cow whose milk is used for food, unless she have a perfectly clean skin, cannot give clean milk, and then the butter will be bad. The skin should be in a perfect ly healthy condition, and the blood pure, or the milk will be impure and unhealthful, and the butter or cheese will be tainted. Neither cleanliness nor healthfulness can be secured with out regular brushing of the skin and the removal of all the filth which will gather upon ill-kept cows. This should be done before the COWS are milked, both morning and evening. The morning cleaning should be thor ough one; a simple brushing, to re- move dust and loose hairs, will be sufficient for the evening. It will help very much, for both horses and cows to have the stables so floored that the animals can be kept from foullng thep selves.-Ameried AgrtcttlttIriSt
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HOrse.F1esh for Food.

According to the ChriStta1lG Dag bzad, large business is now done by an enterprising butcher at Barnsley, Yorkshire. Eng, in getting dead horses from Glasgow, Scotland, salting their flesh and exporting 1t in large quantities to Stockholm, Sweden. At the time his proceedings were in- vestigated, the butcher had forty tons of horse1esh ready for shipment to Stockholm, whence 1t is distributed through Sweden and sold as.salt beef The medical officer of health in Glas- gow very sensibly remarks, that "To eat flesh of horse slaughtered, under special control, for human food is one thing; but it is quite different mat ter to eat flesh of horses killed on ac- count of great age. or disease, and without control" There is no good reason why the flesh of horses should not be eaten, just as we'll as that of cows, sheep, goats, or pigs, if the anil mals have been healthy and properly killed for food. In France it is largely used. But such meat as the Glasgow doctor hints at is horrible. Yet, the English authorities declare that the Barnsley butchers business is lawfNl and cannot be interfered with. That is shameful Fork Cook,
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Arizona Cliff Dwellers

A Stdr reporter encountered at the depot Deputy sheriff Johnny Crowley of Wilcock, Cochise county, who referred to a recent pilgrimage he made to the Rio Bonito country in pursuit of band pt cattle thieves. He describes tho country visited at being almost destitute of inhabitants, portions of which have never been invaded by white intruders, except, perhaps by desperate men whose crimes have driven them to seek the safety which this terra incognita grants. In one of4the deep canons of the Rio Bonito, perched upon one of its sides, some seventy or more feet from the river surface, Mir. Crowley discovered a mum. Der of deserted habitations of the pre- historic cliff dwellers. From the bottom of the canon, looking up toward the cliff houses, series of steps had been hewn, or cut, in the precipitous side of the granite wall, by means of which the extinct race were enabled to make their entry and exit to and from their places of abode. The houses consist of caves excavated in the wall, the external open. lngs being large enough to admit the passage of a man in a stooping posture. Each house has only one room, ranging in size from ten to twenty feet square. The front of the dwelling which looks down upon the canon, is about one foot in thickness, and is in all cases pierced with the small oriices, which may have been designed for purposes of ventilation, or possibly used as portholee through which the inmates defend them. selves from attack. As in all probability the builders of these eerie habitations were entirely unfamiliar with the use of the high explosives now in vogue, the means by which the herculean labor of making these excavations in solid.granite wall was accomplished becomes Q question of much interest.-IacSoa Stdy.
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Glover ha EOrnwe.

Prof. S. A. Knapp, of the Iowa Az ricultural College, gentleman who has devoted much attention to the grasses, says of clover in the Io,oa Homestead:
 "It has a composition quite similar to cows milk-more dry matter, and more ash, less fat, albuminoids nearly the same," and that "an acre of good clover will produce in one season twelve tons or more of green food, containing two and two-flfths tons of dry matter, equal to ninety bushels of corn and more than it's equivalent for food. Clover is a wonderful feeder. It greedily devours barnyard manure and ashes, and has special liking for gypsum. As a grain food it is not necessary to find better"
 In relation to flavor Prof. Knapp says it is of tho highest order. Tested "with fifty of the best grass and for age plants, placing a bunch of red clover, when about seven or eight
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nches tall, beside a similar bunch of

nches tall, beside a similar bunch of :ifalfa, orchard grass, Italian rye grass, etc, and allowing the COW, sheep and pig to decide the question of relative palatability, in every case the pig and sheep took the clover first, and in most cases the COW did the same"
 Red clover "when young has a nu- tritive ratio of one to two, which shows that it is nearly equal to oil-meal for growing young animals. As the plant approaches maturity the water, the ash, the fats, and the albuminoids de- crease and the carbohydrates and crude fibre increase, till In full the nutritlve ratio is one to othree-excellent food as hay, but not so strong in flesh forming material as earlier"
 An objection among farmers to clo- yer as hay is the difficulty of curing 1t alone For this reason 1t is generally sown with one or more of the grasses. Sown with Timothy, the clover Is in perfection for curing sooner than that grass, but orchard grass and clover mature for curing about the same time
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KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED.
Horrible Discovery at n Gypsy Camp
 Probable Fate of Two Children.

MARSHALL, H., June 3O.-Several weeks ago dispatch from Effugham gave an account of supposed kidnapping of two little girls by gypsies. A few days afterward band of gypsies camped two and half miles east of here for three nights. The first evening Ofi- cer Millard Hedrick passed the camp, and, as he went by, child ran toward him, crying and beckoning, but was pursued and overtaken by an old hag. Hedrick thought nothing of the matter, but since then some children, crossing high hill near the location of the gypsy camp, saw a hole in the ground near which hogs were roofing, and from which came sickening stench. Sheriff Farr and 8 deputy went to investigate, and dug down three feet into grave four feet long by two and one-haH feet wide. They found little ex- Cept bits of cloth, but various facts tend to confirm the theory that the children were killed and buried, the bodies being covered so lightly that they were found and eaten by the hogs.
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
L.nbola,

The most durable and convenient labels for trees Is a strip of rough zinc. If ordinary, smooth zinc has to be used, it should be immersed in diluted muriatic acid for a few minutes, to roughen the surface. Ordinary pencil writing will last for many years on such labels; they may be fastened with
 copper wire, or if the strips are cut Ion g enough, their ends may be twist ed around small limbs
 -Chere is nothing more dIscouraging, afte having planted collection of fruits, than to find when they come into bearing that the labels have be- come, detached and every trace of them lost. The wise thing to do, therefore, is to examinetevery newly planted tree before winters storms have blown off the labels, and fasten them securely. And still the wiser thing after that is to make an accurate map of the orchard, no matter how rough, indicat- ing the exact position and name of every tree, so that 1t maybe identified at glance, independent.of labels.
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Recipes.

Potato SouRe-Boil and mash a quart of potatoes, moisten with a pint of boiled milk. Beat separately the whites and yolks of three eggs, add the yolks to the potato, and a little salt. Whisk the whites to froth and add, just before cooking the dish. Put the mixture on a large dinner plate and bake fifteen minutes; serve as soon as taken from the oven.
 Barley Broth-Cut up three pounds of the knuckle or breast of veal, cover it with gallon of cold water, and let 1t simmer to two quarts. An hour be- fore 1t is cooked, season 1t with speck of mace, young spring onion or leek, salt and whole peppers. Strain, wash and drain half pint of pearl barley; cover it with milk and let it stand half an hour; drain and add to the soup; simmer half an hour, taste for season. ing and serve.
 Ham c ld RttSSe-Select a small ham; trim off all rusty looking parts and scald the ham. Let 1t remain In the hot water five minutes, drain and dry with cloth. Prepare a dough, the same as for bread, cover the ham with 1t and bake in a moderate oven two hours; remove the dough and the skin, dust little sugar over the top, heat the coal shovel in the range and hold 1t close enough to the sugar to sInge it, then serve, with or without sauce.
 Tomato Omelet-Scald and skin three ripe tomatoes, quarter them; fry a quarter of an onion (minced), in an ounce of butter, toss the tomatoes in this, add little water to prevent burning; season with salt, pinch of cayenne and a very slight suspicion of mace; simmer until reduced to pulp. Break three eggs separately, beat them together, put them in the frying pan, and when slightly Drowned on the bot tom prepare to fold the omelet; just before doing so, add the tomato pulp and turn the omelet out on hot dish, surround it with little tomato sauce. and serve.-Cook.
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The New York AppoIutments.


 President Cleveland on Saturday made the following appointments:
 Edward l.. Hedden to be Collector of Gus toms for the District of New Yoik.
 Hans s. Beattie to be Surveyor of Customs in the District of New York.
 silas W. Burt to be Naval Officer of Customs in the district of New York.
 Edward L. Hedden for the past twenty-five years has been with the shipping firm of Wet more Cryder & Co.,, of New York city. He re- tired from business last year upon the disso- Iution of this firm. Outside of the shipping business he has business associates in the Niagara Insurance Company and the North River Bank, in both of which institutions he is a director. During his connection with Cryden & Co.,, he had charge of the Custom house business of the firm. He is County Democrat.
 Mir. Beattie is Deputy County Clerk in New York under Patrick Keenan. He is member of the County Democracy.
 Mir. Burt is graduate of Union College. He vas appointed Deputy Naval Officer at New Fork In 1869, by President Grant and Naval Officer in 1878 by President Hayes, and was removed by President Arthur.
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Beans as a Farm Crop.

"I should think" said the Doctor, 'that the farmers on the new, cheap land of the northwest would go into the raising of beans on large scale" -"When l was in Minnesota and Dakota last fall," said ], "the same idea struck me. The soil and the climate are favorable. But possibly there would be difficulty in procuring the necessary labor to pull the beans" If they should grow the crop on a large scale," said the Doctor, "they would very soon have 0 machine to pull the beans, or, possibly, to thrash them where they stand. We ought to raise beans enough to supply the world. As matters now are, beans are grown on comparatively circumscribed area, and any trivial cause may greatly en- nance prices and thus effectually stop the foreign demand. Some years, beans are down to dollar bushel, and then up to three dollars per bushel. Of course, such extreme fluctuations seri- ously interfere with foreign trade. But let the northwest take hold of the matter, and we should have a large area to draw from, and steadier prices and larger trade would be the result. Beans are the most nutritious of all vegetables. They will keep from year to year. They do not need grinding into four, like wheat, and moreover can be easily transported any distance. Let us have more beans-especially for export,"-Joseph Harris iIa Agri- ctLIturiSt
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Household Hints.

In baking buildings set dish1i one of water, in the oven.
 A basin of water placedAn an oven will keep bread or cake from Fscorch- ing.
 It is said that camphor gums placed on shelves or in drawers will effectu- ally drive away mice
 In making any sauce put theFbutter and flour in together, and yours sauce will never be lumpy.
 To make an excellent furniture polish, take turpentine, linseedFoil and vinegar, in equal proportlons;ss apply ,and rub with flannel.
 Never wash raisins that areeto be used in sweet dishes. It will make the pudding heavy. To clean them, wipe with dry towel.
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HIS PATENT HEN-TEASER,
How MT. Wagstaff Protected
 His Flower Garden
He Invents Contrivance which Provos an
 Extraordinary Success

MT. Jethro Wagstaff recently made up his mind that this year he would have a successful garden. That Is, he meant that his seeds should come up naturally, and not throughthe medium of his neighbor's hens, as they did last year.
 To sit on the stoop all day, and watch the garden. pole in hand, to discourage any itinerant Shanghai from commencing operations, would be altogether too monotonous and tir- ing for a man so fond of variety as Mir. Jethro Wagstaff. Hewas afraid his neighbors might be provoked,if he shot their fowls, and desisted fHom setting his dog on them because he he knew the dog would damt Age the beds quito as much,> if not m ore than the chickens themselves.
 He knew that it would do no go od to have the hens wings cut, for notll- ing short of cutting the hem through the neck causes the flowers to thrive and grow properly.
 So MT. Wagstaff allowed himself to become engrossed with theidea of in- venting some Ssimple contrfwance for the hen, who istalways ready to scrape an acquaintance with your flower beds.
 After time,he hit on the planNpf filling a piecebf plank with holes, like a cribbage board, and setting in each hole parlor' match with the head up, This he intended to place in the gar den. concealed by the soft soil that would invite the most indifferent hen to come in and scratch.
 Then he left the gate open and went into~ the house. where he could see what took place through the blinds withouG.I being observed by the besleg- Ing bipet7s.
 In fewsminutes large Dominick hen wandered fin. and was attracted by the fresh eeuth. After prelude of jubilent cackleY at getting in unob- served, and at the prospect of having a flower-bed alN to herself, the old Dominick iumpedFontoI that soft rpot, landing on bothAf6et. Ut was a bliss ful moment for MT. Waastaff. It was likewise 6 ,blissful moment for the hen for, as}shs drove both feet deep into the earth, she struck1a match that immediately ignited thes others, and before thelhen had 6 chance to realize the situation, or even guess attit, there was not solitary feather left on the entire basement of that hen. And 1t was & noticeable fact that for some time that hen was never ob- served sitting on the ground or on nest and at night she always sought a limb on some tree. In order that she might go to sleep on her feet Her eggs were all right, however, except that they'were cooked little too hard.
 ooh, this Is lovelyp' observed Mir. Wagstaff, as the family all pounded him on the back to relieve him of mysteries which had so suddenly pros trated him: "Oh, wasn't 1t funny, anyhow" said MT. Wagstaff, ito see the expression of surprise that came over the hen, and sort of shook her confidence in herself and everything elsep'
 Wagstaff's Hen-Teaser has just been patented, and it is safe to say that Wagstaff will not be troubled by his neighbor's poultry any more for some time ito come-R x. MttpkSttTtck fr1 Puck
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Sentence oE Fish.

James D. Fish, late President or tne Is;o,,so Bank, was on Saturday senttNnceo loE nA'"'O of the Banks funds. r,..,. ..;5.
 Judge Benedict in sentencing Flsh salo:m "You were charged by the GranG Jury stc5 MtSI many offences against the laws of ne On1seu S States. After fair and impartial Leiat yov os were found guilty of the misapproprist- Vn non oa the funds of the bank of which you "otJ oy President. You were also found guilty I making false entries in the books of the ban while in that position. The verdict ot the jury was that you were guilty. The evidence clearly showed that there could be no doubt as to your guilt. more shameful or a more lawless abuse of the powers of President or national bank can scarcely be imagined. It IS proper, therefore, that fit punishment should be meted out to you, and in order that others may be deterred from similar offences, 1t IS necessary that the full penalty ot the law should be pronounced upon you. merciul consideration for your age forblds a cumula- latiye sentence. The sentence Of the court IS that you shall be confined in the prison at Au- bnrn for ten years."
 Under the communication system which pre- yails in all the prisons of New York State, MT. Fish can, by good conduct, reduce his period of confinement to six years and six months.
 Fish was taken to Auburn on Saturday night, and was delivered at the prison Sunday morning.
 The court had the power to make his sem tence no years, but, in it's mercy, combined the indictments so that they formed but one. Fish betrayed no emotion as he entered the gloomy prison or as he was afterward locked in his cell
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THE NEW POSTAL LAW.
One Ounce Letters May Hereafter be
 Mailed for Two Cents.

''There is terrible amount of misunder- standing and transformation about the changes in the Postal law that went into oper- ation July 1st," remarked Post-ofice De- partment official at Washington, "and there will be a great deal of mail matter that will go into the Dead Letter Office in consequence of it. The only change in which the public are directly interested is that hereafter letter weighing one ounce or under will go for two cents.
 It does not mean that ordinary half ounce letters will go for one cent. The ordinary let ters will cost two cents, the same as heretofore, but 8 letter that has cost four cents in the past can now be sent for two cents. There are cer- tain changes about printed matter, but that interests publishers only. Others will have to pay as much for mailing newspapers or mag azines as they do now. There has been no re- duction in the postag of merchandise"
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LIstnn to Your MIfo.

The Manchester ouardian, June stA, IccSs myJ;
 At ono of the
 "Windowsn
 Iookinc on tho woodland waysi With clumps of rbododcndrotHs and grcat masses ot May bloasomalll 'lhcre was an mtornstng 1t included orc who had been "cotton spinner but was now 70
 pnralynedili
 That Dc could only bear to nein reclining poaition.
 was Attacked twelve yoau ago wfth 10 comotrr AtAxyn
 IA paralytic disease of nerve fibrs rare'y ever curedl and was for several years barely able to Gsa about
 And for the Inst Five years not able to d. tend to my business. although Many things hnvn boon done for me
 Tho last experiment being Nerve strot otchinG. Two years ago was voted Into the
 Home for Incurables Near Manohestor, in May, tsS2
 Tam no "Advooato"; "For anything in the shape of patant' Medicincsi
 And made many objections Co my dear wifc's constant urging to try Hop hittera, but finally to pacify her
 Conscntodll
 I had not quite finished the first bottle whom
  urday, November A, On Sunday morningt felt 50 strong said Co my room companions "I was sure l could
 "Maki
 So started acroCs the floor and back
 hardly knew how to contain myself Twas all over the houso l am gaining strength each day, and can walk quito safe without any
 "Stckm
 Or Support
 am now at my own house, md hope soon Co be ablo to earn my own living again have bcon n member of the Manchester
 "Royal Exehnngo'
 For nearly thirty ycarS, md was most heartily congratulated on going into the room on Tbursdny last Very gratefully yours, JOHN BLkcKnURr,
 MANcHEsrrR (Engl Doc. 2l, iSSa
 Two years lator am perfectly woM ESF-Nne genuine withouta bunch of green | Hops on the white label Shun all tho vile, | ysaW tss