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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01

sTAUNroN. December 81, 1885

STAUNToN. December 81. 1885,
Flour-Extra, "a 00G "a 05 ;Super1ne $3.600$3. IS
Family $4.25as--; Wheat a2@9}; Corn, 400;
Oats. 3l@33; Rye. 5O@55; Bacon, 7@3: Tea Ba ok.
60@75; Tea Green, 50@$l0); Flax Seed 75@i-;
Plaster Ground. 800 per ton; Lard 611@7: Butter
16@lSc: EYES 1920; Corn meal, 5O@- Salt 81 .65
Pork. s4.50@$i75: Sugar 7@ac: Molasses 40 0J5c
@20c Potatoes, 35@40. Tiinothy seed, 1902. 25
Wool (washed) 2O@22c; Wool (unwashedl lsc;
Timothy, s-9$-; Glover, $9,OO0$1lOO; Rye
65G70.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Dec. 28.-Beef
Cattle. Prices of Beef Cattle ranged as
follows Best s525a$5.5O; that generally rated
first quality $i25as7..5; medium or good fair
quality S. 00as4 co; ordinary thin Steers. Oxen
and Cows $2.2 500. Extreme range of prices
81 25a$5 50 There was exceedingly light Offering
to day, one of the gh est for years, even at this
dull season. Trade was quite slow. but prices for
the better grades W. re lsaAc higher Than they
Wet last week, While the other grades, quality
considered. show little, if any variation from the
prices realized then We quote at 81 25af5 50, with
most sales at 80 0a$5.2 per Ito lbs. Receipts this
week 40S head; saes 1888 head.
SwINE-The receipts show large falling off
from last weak but there are quite enough for the
rather moderate demand The quality hardly
average as good as last weeks offerings. We
quote at 434a515c per ID net. Eectipts this VT elk
1858 head.
SHEEP AND LANES. receipts are very light
but the demand is quite slow, the offerings being
fully equal to very moderate demand The qua
lily is ab0uf he Same as that OF last week, with
the exception ola few tx IA sheep. which so d on
private terms suppnsei at 44c. We quote sheep
at 2Aa411c, and lambs ut 31aa Per lb gross Re
ceipJS this week 975 head.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01
COUNTY COURT-Judge J. W. Stout pre-
sidlug commenced It's December term on
Monday. The following is a summary Of
the proceedings

the proceedings
Probate Administrations were granted to Thos.
NJ Smiley on the estate OF Harvey Fulton, decd,
and a. D. Hanger on The estate of W. Wilson,
decd, and on the estate of Thomas L. Wilson,
decd. The estates of Christian Stauber and " III.
4. Redman were committed to Thos H. N Speck,
Sheriff The wills of James McCutchan and Kobt.
Tate WALLACE we're admitted to probate, with
James W Wallace executor OF the last named
Miscellaneous Rev. solomon W. CARRIER of The
German Baptist, and Few Christian Gumbert of
the Reformed Churches, were authorized to admi-
Mister the rites of marriage.
Nolle proSequiS were entered against the late
Cyrus Brown Of Wa, nesboro for uElawfully sell
ing liquor.
Justice Llckli!er reported and paid into the
Court the following fine imposed by him $50 on
John Thompson for carrying concealed weapons,
anu Justice J. b. Hunter reported the following
misdeIheanOr; $500 n Phillips for resisting
an officer, and 81 90 each on Fannie Brown and
LOca Berkeley for assaults Justice Leonard also
paid into Court fine of 500 imposed upon Mar
tina Vaughan for assault on EliZ lbeth Spears.
An order was entered directing the Treasurer to
advertise the delinquent taX-liStS
the grand jury made the following Indictments:
Against L. j S.rsoynAr ror murder; " d. Myers
for malicious manning. and George CabelI and
Peter Monroe for offences committed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01
MISCELLANEOU

(NoUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS No
" lICE.-My office days in Staunton VIII D,
- eduesday ana Saturday OF each week, and Cour
DAYS Which days l will devote exclusively Il
school business. a..,
CouIthoIlse Fl. SHEFFEY RULLER, &
arg5S " Co Supt. school.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01

Save your valuable animal by using Dixie Condit
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01
S.yEYOUK Hay BY USING

WTIND ENGINES-The Iron Turbine runs In
w lighteSt wind, never warps, shrinks or
blows out and is the very thing to save time, trcu
BILE and'ex penSe in lifting and forcing water to a.
distance al d up hill. Once properly put up there
is no further expence. For sale by I
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-01-01

AID requested 10 Drlug on, all Insane per-
sons confined in their j .lls. 1t is true that
the annual report Ut 1882 So alluies I'd Tie
subject in tue FOL o wi X language: Near
ly all the patients adm Itted within The
year have been received since February !
1882 Sucn d statement Was well CAL
cuiated 10 bofog Che puOlIc mud, leading
as it did to the inference that your preas-
cessors had provided the additional &C
commodatons for the insane. while the
fact is they never provided even single
additional room for patients. The asylum
accommodations found here on the 18th of
April, 1884. we're precisely The same as
existed when was depOssd on the 9th of
Marca, 1882. "Magna est veritas g. pra-
valebit.''
THE NUMBER AT THE ASYLUM NOW,
1.-The biennial term closes with $40 pa
tients remaining under asylum care and
treatment. or this number IS are conva-
]escent, and 81 are deemed to be durable,
leaving residuum of sos, who, in all
probability will never recover"
THE COST OF SUPPORT.
"The amount paid ont on support &C.
count for the year 1875, was S93, 9S3, GS.
The daily average of patients during the
year Was 5S9-thus giving a per capita
cost of maintenance of $15o, 56 per annum.
This places the average psr diem cost of
each patient al 43 cents, which is less than
the average cost OF maintenance per
day Of lunatics confned in the jails of the
Commonwealth, and this fact affords DOS.
tive evidence of the rigid economy OBJ
served i'll the general management. As it
is not likely that the price of provisions
will fall during tbs next year or two, and
as the Asylum VIII certainly keep up the
same large daily average, and as the o.di-
nary repairs are TO be paid out of current
expenditures, SOL. 600. cons asked for as the
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
A GREAT INVENTION.
TIE legraphing from Moving Railway
Train to a Roadside Station.

TIE legraphing from u Moving Railway
Train to a Roadside Station.
The system of transmitting and re-
ceiving telegraph messages from trains
IN motion was successfully demonstrate
ed by the Railroad Telegraph and Tel
ephone Company at Clifton, Staten
Island, the other day. Inside the car
at a small table a telegraph operator
sat sending and receiving messages to
and from the outside world while the
train was in motion. The operator
differed from others in having tele-
phone sounding-plates over his ears.
held in place by a rubber band passing
over his head. In front of the operator
on the table was an ordinary Morse
key, by which he sent the messages to
an operator at Clifton, who received
them through telephone sounding
plates fastened or his ears.
Mr.. Edison, who was present, ex-
planned that in the Clifton office there
was a condenser made of layers of tin
foil separated by air, but that at the
car condenser was formed by the
thirty Baltimore & Ohio wires stretched
along the track, by the tin roofs of the
cars, which were all connected by cop
per wires and by the air between the
wires and the tin roofs. Under the
table of the operator in the car was a
local battery.
The current used may be conceived
as passing first from the battery in the
Clifton Station and leaving through the
condenser to the telegraph wires, then
passing along those wires without in
terrupting ordinary messages until it
gets opposite the car, when it jumps
across the tin roofs and passes down
through Il wire to an electromagnetic on
the operators table. Thence it re-
turns through the axlcs and wheels of
the car, and through the ground to the
Clifton Station. The Morse current,
without the aid of the electromagnetic,
can not pass through the condenser so
as to make continuous musical note.
1t passes through, but its waves are so
much slower that no distinct sounds
are formed.
Many messages We're sent to and
from the moving car. This invention.
it is asserted, will be especially useful
to train dispatchers. who may by its
use communicate with train at any
point on the road.-N. Y. Dispatch.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
A STRANGE SIGHT.
description of an Everyday Scene ON the
Chicago Board of Trade.

description OF an Everyday Scene ON tho
Chicago Board of Trade.
"But what is going on heres' the
visitor asks. Gathered in circles or
hurrying across the floor in all direc-
tons he behOlds hundreds of men
eagerly intent upon the pursuit of some
individual yet common object. The
! different groups are closely huddlei to-
gether, like sheep in an Enclosure. and
each man is shouting to his associates
at the top of his COice, and accompany
ing his words with frantic gesticuil-
tons and flushed, excited features. lis
this a veritable .Bedlam let loose?'"
the visitor queries in amazement, land
are all these men crazy?' Very far
from it. The cause of this excitement
and OF these rapid movements is the
simple fact that thousands of dollars
are here changing hands every minute.
! The incessant click of q hundred
Geographic instruments is conveying
the knowledge of these hurried tran
sactions to all parts of the commercial
world. The East and the West, the
North and the South are alike inter.
ested in the information thus impaired,
while grave and solid grain and
provision merchants in Liver
pool, London, Antwerp and Paris.
eagerly scan the report of each
days doings. And thus the harnessed
lightning of two continents is kept
busy scattering abroad the facts and fig
ures produced in this apparently insane
hubbub. On either side of the hall,
and without the line of trading-pits,
are rows of handicapped tables, on
which are deposited sample bags of
grain, and around these cluster buyers
and sellers, shippers and exporters, eX-
aiming the goods and determining up
on the price of exchange. Market
quotations from all the large trade
centers of America and Europe are re-
ceived during the trading hours, and are
at once posted upon conven:ently-ar-
ranged blackboards. The wheat-pit
usually attracts the largest crowd, the
provision-pit comes next, and the corn
and oat traders bring up the rear, eN-
cept in times of special activity, when
this regular order of things is liable 70
be reversed. In the four corners of the
hall &1e small separate rooms for
special purposes, and on two sides are
galleries. from which astonished
spectators look down with feelings of
wOnderment upon the turbulent and
noisy scene below. As whole, the
sight is truly strange and significant
one, and the casual visitor usually
turns away from it with brain and
heart tossed by conflicting and un-
wOnted emotions and retlections.-J.
r. Bates, in Current.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
THE DAIRY.

"a writer in Forming World advises
farmers to get small pals. make a good
even grade of butter. put name and the
name OF dairy on each pail and ship to
some reliable commission merchant on
trial. In few weeks, if you produce
really meritorOus article, there will
be demand for all you can produce,
and it will pay, too.
When the temperature is too high
or too low there is difficulty in getting
the butter; in the one case it is too soft
to adhere and is beaten into a still finer
emulsion and remains in the churn q
foamlng, creamy mass; in the other
case extremely fine grains of butter are
formed, but no amount of churnine
will unite these minute grains into
lumps.-N. y. Times.
Variety conduces to health. An
animal is no more fitted for subsistinS
on single article of food than man.
When kept upon one kind only it soon
begins to reject it, eating only when
compelled by hunger. Digestion is
best effected when all the demands for
food are complied with. The greater
the variety the more rapid the progress
of the animal.-Fdrn,. Field and Stock
man.
One of the principal reasons why
Canadian dairymen turned their atten-
ton to making cheese, was their fail
ure to make butter that could be ex-
ported at profit, says the Prorisioner.
Putting all their cream into cheese is.
therefore, the principal reason why Ca
madam cheese, through its superiority,
is rapidly ousting. in foreign markets.
its rival made in the United States.
The rate of depreciation in the
value of a cow from four years to ten
is figured by some dairymen at four
dollars year. That is, if a COW is
worth forty dollars when four years old
her carcass would be worth say sixteen
dollars for beef when ten years old.
This, however. needs to be taken with
some grains of allowance. A great
many cows if sound and healthy are as
profitable at ten and twelve years of
age as they ever were.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
-Dairymen should remember that q
well-fed COW is different animal in
many respects from Il thin cow. And
this difference is never more apparent
or important than at the time of calv-
ing. A cow in poor condition needs
rest for two or three months. and there
is little danger of inflammation of the
udder unless she is highly fed. But a
cow that has been kept in high con-
dition is no doubt safer if MIXED all the
time till she calves. If the milking is
stopped while she is giving good flow,
it makes a change in the system which.
added to the increasing Inflammation
resulting from her condition. is apt to
make trouble and end in milk fever
WeStern Rurat.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
A PETRIFiED BODY.
Tho Valuable Geological Specimen FOun
Near Evergreen, Ohio.

Tho Valuable Geological Specimen Found
Near Evergreen, Ohio.
Nine years ago, while grading for q
road, the employees of the Peoples
Plank Road Company, of Evergreen,
dug from the hillside a curious stone.
1t was used for some time by the work
men for prying out other stones, its
value as a relic not being suspected.
Mr.. Henry Cridge, Sr., of Evergreen.
had his attention called to 1t, and took
it home, intending to convert It into 4
flower-pot. He was informed, how
ever, that it was petritied human
body. 1t was found in limestone soil,
and has the appearance Of the bark of
a tree. 1t appears as if it had been
wrapped up in the hide of some ami
NAL, the outward surface being dotted
with what are supposed to be stitches
of rawhide. 1t is about five feet high
and two feet in circumference, and
bears striking resemblance to the hui
man form. The weight is about five
hundred pounds. 1t is said that many
years ago Indians camped on the very
spot the form was found, and it is
thought to be tse remains of chief
from the way it was dressed. The pro-
cess of petrification is what is known in
geology as the sandstone formation. 1t
has been examined by many scientific
men of the two cities. and Mr.. Cridge has
refused five hundred dollars offered by
the proprietors of a city museum
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
MANY NAMES.
How Honest Peter MacPhersOn Came &c
BE Called Peter Gum.

How Honest Peter MacPhersOn Came to
BE Called Peter Gum.
don't know if this story was ever in
print. Colonel Febiger tells it as re-
lated by Rufus Choatc. Choate was
once engaged to hunt up the lost heir
to Scotch estate. He was the last
direct heir of the MacPhersons and was
supposed to be in America. After an
awful lot of trouble Choate unearthed
him in New Orleans, where he was
known as Peter Gum, and this is how
he came to have that name: In Ar
cadia. where he first settled, for con-
venience. he was called Pherson, and
custom made that the name he lived
under. He moved into Pennsylvania.
where the Dutch peoplA, not seeing
any sense in Pherson, paraphrased it
into Firestone, which they afterward
translated into Feurstein. Then he
went to Philadelphia. where. the name
being unpronounceable. the people
translated it back into English and he
was called Peter Flint. After few
years there he moved into Louisiana.
and there the creoles, taking still
further liberties with his name, adapted
it into Pierre Fusil. Under that name
he lived a long time, and finally he set
tied in New Orleans, where he became
dissatisfied with the French title, and
he translated it boldly himself into
plain Peter Gum, and SO he was dis
coyered.-SdH Francisco Chronicle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
INSECTICIDES.
Reliable Remedies Eor the Destruction OF
the Apple Tree Louise. Etc.

Reliable Remedies Eor the Destruction OF
the Apple Tree Louise, Etc.
Among the remedies for the apple
tree louise are strong soap suds, weak
I've or decoction of tobacco sprayed
upon the trees just Is the buds are I'M
folding in spring. Powdered pyrethrum,
Buhach or Persian insect powder, is
also useful in destroying this and
many other species of insects. The
usual and tolerably familiar remedies
for other insects injurious to the apple
were named. such as the flexible wire
for the borer. bands of cloth wound
round the trunk. and examined once a
week. for catching the codling moth:
Paris-gvcen solutions for the canker-
worm and tent caterpillar, and the
picking up and destruction of all fallen,
wOrmy fruit. reducing the numbers of
the apple maggot, the codling moth
and the curoulio. A professor has g.
so urged the removal of all the Did
surplus apple trees that are scattered
about the farm, and which afford oreed-
ing places for the numerous species
that will go from these to infest the
choicer trees of the orchard and garden.
christian at Work.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
HOME NOTES.
Useful and Suggestive Items OF Interest to
HOusekeepers.

. Useful and suggestive Items OF Interest to
| Housekeepers.
Cistern water may be purified by
charcoal put in bag and hung in
water.
Coffee-cake should be wrapped. while
warm, in napkin, and there remain
| till cut.
Powdered rice, spIinkled upon lint
and applied to fresh wounds. will stop
bleeding.
Whiting or ammonia in the water is
preferable to soap for cleansing win
dows or paint.
In pairing fruit for canning. use a
silver knife so that the fruit may not
turn dark colored.
Buy bar soap by the quantity. Keep
it where it will dry, and it will go much
farther in using.
Prick potatoes before baking, so that
the air may escape, otherwise they may
burst in the oven.
Hot, dry flannels applied to the face
and neck is very effective remedy for
a jumping toothache.'
Brass utensils are often ruined be-
cause the salt and vinegar necessary to
their perfect cleansing are forgotten.
Fruit or rust stains on table linen or
other white cloths may be removed by
soaking in q weak solution of oxalic
acid.
The most effectual remedy for shiny
and greasy drain pipes is cop
peras dissolved and left to work grad
ually through the pipe.
No kitchen should be without scales
to test the integrity of things purchased
by weight and to measure the quanti-
ties CT various recipes.
Lamp chimneys are easily cleaned by
holding them over the steam from
tea-kettle. then rubbing with soft
cloth and finally polishing with a paper.
Plaster of Paris ornaments may be
cleaned by covering them with thick
layer of starch, letting it dry thorough
ly and then brushing with stiff brush.
1t is good plan to wrap cans Of
fruit in newspapers and put them away
in a dark, cool place. The wrapping
ia paper and keeping dark is said to
prevent the bleaching of the fruit.
Tin vessels rust and are often worth
less in a few weeks because, after wash
ing, they are not set on the stove for
minute, or in the sun, to dry thorough
ly before they are put away.
A useful present for wakeful invalid
is soft silken bag filled with pine
cones or pine needles; the latter, how
ever. need replenishing occasionally.
They can be embroidered with appro.
pirate notices.
Old garments that may be utilized in
a hundred ways, for rugs, Innings, cush-
ions and the like, are sometimes rem
dered worthless because when no long
er fit for wear, they are not ripped to
pieces. brushed and put away.-Chsc0-
50 Journal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
BOGUS BUTTER.
The Various Articles Entering Into It's
Composition.

Inc various ARTICLES EnterlnE into It's
Composition.
The imperative Importance that the
bogus article shall be easily detected
may be cleaned from the following list
of materials used in the manufacture of
oleomargarine, as stated in the various
patents under which spurious butter is
made: Sugar of lead, bisulphate of
lime, saltpeter, borax, boracic acid.
salicylic acid, orris root, cotton-seed
oil, vegetable oils, bitaric acid, bicar-
Donate of soda. nitrate of potassia,
glycerine, capcylic acid, cuparic acid,
alum. capcic acid, sulphate of soda.
cows udders, commercial sulphuric
acid, pepsin, sal soda, tallow, lard, sea
salt, farinaceOus flour, butyric ether,
caustic potash, carbOnic acid, sulphuric
acid, castor oil, curcumine, chalk, Slip
perry elm bark, caul, oil of sesame, oil
of sunflower seeds, olive oil. turnip
seed oil, broma chlorallum, chloratc of
potash, inter, oil of sweet almonds, oil
of peanuts, peroxide of manganese,
stomach of pigs. sheep or calf; nitrate
VI SOtid, UcIHiC VII, SsIStTlC JUICE,
mustard seed oil, nitric acid, dry blood,
albumen. sugar. butyric acid, bicar-
Donate of potash, chloride of sodium,
caustic soda, corn starch, coloring mat
ter
The dangers to the public health
which result from the use of oleo-
margarine are, according to DR.. r. D.
Clark, of Albany, much more serious
than are generally supposed. That
gentleman, who has made study of
the physiological features of the sub
ject arrives at the conclusion that oleo-
margarine is unwholesome and danger
Gus (D because it is indigestible; (2)
because it is frequently insoluble; (S)
because it is liable to carry the germs
of disease into the human system and,
az because manufacturers in their
eagerness to produce their spurious
compounds cheaply use ingredients di-
rectly detrimental to health.-Brook-
I'm Union.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
A Subject Which Deserves the Considers
ton of Dairy Farmers.

A Subject Which Deserves the Considers
tion of Dairy Farmers.
Mr.. David Burrill, of Little Falls, N.
T., states that by the aid of ensilage he
Is now keeping one hundred and forty
COWS on the same land where he FORM
erly kept only forty. There is no in
crease of capital for land, only small
outlay for the silo and the growing of
southern sweet corn for ensilage pur-
poses. Hiram Smith has similar ex-
perience. Right here lies the secret Of
reducing the cost of milk and increas-
ing the profit. Two things only are
necessary: 1st, produce more fodder
on the same land at less cost per ton;
Cd, as soon as possible procure a class
of cows that will give an increased
amount of product for the amount of
food consumed. When one cow will
produce as much butter as two ordin-
airy cows and one acre will furnish as
much food as six acres ordinarily do,
the dairy farmer may be certain that he
is on the right track.
We want to see more productive
acres and more productive methods of
tilling them: also fewer cows and bet
ter ones. The great reason the poor
farmer can make nothing at farming is
because what he produces costs twice
as much as it does the good farmer.
There is room right here for good.
long, strong thinking.-Hoards Dairy
man.