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Year: 1869

tFrom the sidney tOhio) Journal, March 1ol


The people OF this county were greatly startled,
last week, by learning that Montr3, In the north
cru part OF the county, had been the scene OF a
most horrible tragedy. George Fowler residing o
short distance from Montra, was on Friday morn
Ing terribly manglcd and killed by his wife. We
are informed that Fowler had grossly mistreated
ms vile, and about year since, while she was In
an advanced state Of pregnancy, had kicked her In
the stomach, from the effects OF which she has
never recovered and for nine months past has been
confined nearly all the time 10 her bed. During this
t.ine Fowler has persiscd In HIS unkind treatment
starving and abusing her In every conceivable man
ner. ON the Wednesday preceding the day he was
Killed they had bitter quarrel, and he, after that,
refused 10 occupy the same bed with her. On Friday
morning Mrs. Fowler got up about four O'Clock,
while her husband was sti sleeping before the fre-
place with little son about eight years OF age.
After getting up she noticed the axe Under the bed
aud says something told her she must Kill George
Taking the axe she struck the sleeping man some
eighteen or twenty blows on the neck and face xiii.
Ing him instantly ana mutating him In n shocking
manner After the second blow the boy rushed from
the house and gave the alarm. The miserable woman
Is now IN Jail awaiting the trial Her appearance
fully proves, we think. the charge Of starvation and
abuse. She is young woman and Of rather pleas-
fn1 looks though much elnacieted
Year: 1869

The editor of the New York CONNER
ciat Adcertiser, who saw John G.. Breck-
inridge during his brief tarry in that
city, last week, says: We could not
but remark the alterations which
time and exile had made in his per-
sonal appearance. He does not look
like the same man who years ago
presided with so much grace and Dig
niev in the Senate of the United
States. A thoroughly jaded and
careworn expression is upon his
face. and the once glossy black hair is
thickly strewn with gray. The urban
ity, gentlemanly breeding and courte>
Gus air which made him a shining fig
ure in the gay ranks of Washington so,
ciety before the war, are still apparent,
however, and point more keenly to the
regrets that we feel, that the dark spell
OF treason should have turned the gift.
ed kentuckian from his allegiance
Year: 1869

The travelling confidence men have q
new trick which they are successfully
practioing in Jackson county, Iowa,
They insure one mans property at low
rate, and take bis note for the amount;
then 20 to another, sell him the note at
discount and also insure bis property,
RECEIVING cash therefor; then go to a
third party, insure his property, take bis
note, and in this manner carry out their
progrsmme until the entire neighbor-
hood is 6eeced, when they retire in good
order, With we'll lined pockets.
Year: 1869

We have long been of the opinion
that there was not chat attention paid
to the curing and saving of the corn
fodder that its value demanded. Eve
ry good farmer must know that cattle
eat it greedily through the winter, and
if cut and steamed il is as good for them
as the best hay and really more milk
producing.


Where is the necessity of allowing
to remain in shocks Until the middle or
end of November? Corn should not
be cut down until the statks'a dying
and the grain is pretty hard, and thcli
i. should remain no longer in the field
than is absolutely necessary for the dry
ing Of the grain. 1t Should be husked
as early as posoible. and the fodder sied
Up in bundles and either carefully
stacked near the cattle stables or put
under shelter in sheds.


1t is well-known, too; that horses pre-
fer it to the best hay; also that the
blades are especially sought for to feed
racing animals, strengthening their
wind and bottom hey ond auv other
food. 1t is, besides, wholesome pro-
vender and helps iitost benefic;alv in
making the winters supply of hay hold
ont till late in the spring, with the adj
dition of chopped roots, which every
farmer, who shrewdiy looks to the main
chance, ought to cultivate for feeding
in the early part Of the winter. - Ger
mantolcn Telegraph.
Year: 1869

The late Fritz Greene Halleck said /:
"a letter tell into my hands which a
Scotch servant girl had written to her
lover. Its style charmed me. 1t was
fairly inimita6le. l wonder how. in
her circumstances in life, she could
have acquired SO elegant style. |
showed the letter to some OF my liter
ary friends in the city of New York
and they unanimously agreed that it
was model OF beauty and elegar ce.
then determined to solve the mystery
and | went to the house where she was
employed, and asked her how it was
that, in her humble circumstances in
life, she had acquired style so beauti-
ful that the most cultivated minds could
rot bat admire it," "Sir." said she 81
came.to this country lour years ago.
Then could net read or write. But
since then l have learned to read and
write,but | have not yet learned to spell;
always when | sit down to write let
ter. select those words which are so
short ami simple that | am sure to-
know how to spell Them" There was
the whole secret. The reply OF that
simple-minded Scotch glrl condensed a
world of rhetoric into nutshell.
Simplicity is beauty, Simplicity is
power.
Year: 1869

That the success of farming is in ex-
perience.


That to ask mans advice is not
STOPPING, but often of much benefit.


That kindness to stock, like rood
shelter, is saving of fodder.


That to fight weeds is to favor grain,
and do justice to your neighbor.


That in making home agreeable you
keep yonr boys out of the city.


That it is good thing to grow into
farming not to jump into 1t.


That it is y good thing to keep an
eye on experiments, and note al, good
and bad


That it Is good rule to sell your
grain when 1t Is ready.


That the first mellow soil in springis
your mellowest, and should first be put
IN.


That great changes of weather hurt
cattle, rs well AS men.


That all Of farming is summed up In
the manure heap made on the farm.


That 30 keep a place for every thing,
and everything in its place, saves many
a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good
tools, and keep them in order.
Year: 1869

We do not believe that one farmer in


twenty can answer this question posi-


lively. NO accounts with this or any


other crops are kept, and therefore all


the estimates are mere guess work.


When will the farmers learn to keep ac-
counts? Until they do this, it Is folly
to expect them to attain any great de-
gree OF success. Now and then one
may blundeT into the cultivation of the
most profitable crops, bat this will be
the exception, not the rule.


viii not some OF our readers begin
this year to keep account with their
wheat field? Measure the fed, and set
down the number of acres, then keep A
daily account of the labor of blowing,
sowing, narrowing, and the price OF
seed. charging tor labor of themselves
and team what they could get if they
worked for others. Let the same be
done at the time of harvesting, thresh-
ing and marketing. To all this should
be added the interest on the value of
the land, and also the interest on the
cost OF seed, ,and OF preparing the ground
and sowing, for this Is money out of
pocket for year.


Any person OF tordinary capacity--any
one who knows how to raise wheat.
can keep such an account, aud strike
the balance when he makes his sales--
Until this method is adopted by the far
mer, he can not tell the profit of this as
co impaired with other crops.


Our belief is, that where land is worth
hfty dollars an acre, wheat Is not a
profitable crop, unless it turns out at
least twenty bushels to the acre. at
present prices. We would like to have
farmers make note of this, keep ac-
counts, and give us the facts at the end
Of the year.


We don't want estimates of what it
could cost to raise the crop--we have
lad too many of these already--we
want the actual matter of fact. If the
blow or the reaper is broken in the
wheat field, let both the delay and the
'ost of repairs be added TO expense of
he crop.


And while one is about it, a complete
recount OF all the farming operations
night rs well be kept. There are books
prepared for this purpose. They come
! trifle higher than ordinary account
looks, because the form is peculiar, and
he sale is limited--only few farmers
aking the trouble of keeping accounts;
nut the Oest FARMERS co it, and the num-
er Is increasing.


VIII any one who has Kept account
With his wheat crop the last year give
IS the facts We shall be glad to pub
lsh them. --JoaTnal Of agriculture.
Year: 1869

'Johns said "a pious uncle to his
nephew who Was paying his first visit
to the city, we're in the habit of saying
something before we eat


All right said John, go ahead, you
can't turn my stomach
Year: 1869

The gentleman at church is known by
the following marks:


1. Comes in good season, so as neither
to interrupt the pastor nor the eongrega-
ton by late arrival.


2. Does not stop upon the steps or on
the porticO, neither to cape at the ladies,
salute friends, or display his cOllOquial
powers.


8. Opens and shuts the door gently, and
walks deliberately and lightly up the aisle
or gallery stairs, and gets his seat as quiet
ly and by making as few people remove as
possible.


4. Takes his place either in the back
part of the seat, or steps out into the aisle
when any one wishes to pass in, and never
thinks of such thing as making people
crowd past him while keeping his place in
the seat.


5. Is always attentive to strangers, and
gives up his seat to such, seeking another
for himself


8. Never thinks of defiling a house of
God with tobacco spittle, or annoying
those who sit near him by chewing that
nauseOus weed in church.


Z. Never, unless in case of illness, gets
up or goes out during time Of SERVICE
But if necessity compels him to do so,
goes so quietly that his very manner is an
apology for the act.


8. Does not engage in conversation be-
fore the service.


9. Does not whisper, or laugh, or eat
fruit in the house Of God, or lounge in that
holy place.


10. Does not rush out of the church like
a tramping horse, the moment the bene-
dictiOn is pronounced. but retires slowly
in a uOiseless, quiet manner.


II. Does all he can by preeept and ex-
ample, TO promote decorum in others, and
is ever ready to lend aid to discountenance
all indecorum in the house Of God.
Year: 1869

There can be no excuse for any
young man who never writes home,
or whose letters to the old folks there
whose dreams are ever of their son
ARE few and far between, and not
worth much even when obtained. 1t
is sad to think, that there are young
men who let weeks and months pass
away without letter to their parents,
or their brothers or their sisters-who,
when they do write, only send a line
or two, with some lame excuse for
their not doing more; a line or. two
saying nothing, just containing sOme
stereotyped statement, or vague ut
teraRce, which gives no information.
Why, the valne Of letter from a
young man to the far-off town or viii
lage home, consists in its little de
tails; its afectionate gossip; its &C,
count Of any circumstance or incident
that may have promises in it Of ad-
vantage; its story of hopeful struggle,
Of dawning success; or its reference to
new-formed friendships,-to books
read, churches attended, lectures lis
tened to, with a thousand things be-
sides, which may be small in them
selves, but which show an interest in
the home circle, and manifest the
beating of ''the chiId's heart within
the MANS" Young men are not
aware what pain they may infIict by
apparent neglect; how letters, brief
and infrequent, may give rise to fear
and doubt, and occasion anxious days
and wakeful nights. Don't seem in
different to your own family, as if all
your interest were transferred to
strangers. Keep the chain of commu-
nication bright by use, and write
freely and fully, with unrestrained
confidence, that it may be felt that
there is no blight on the affections nor
error in the life, which is too often
the cause Of that lapse in flial or fra
ternal correspondence. which, though
the result also at times of mere
thoughtlessness, is always unkind and
sometimes cruel.
Year: 1869




This reads very much like the head
ing of a patent medicine advertise
ment, but it is nothing of the sort.
We write it for the purpose of quo
ting the following valuable directions
and reflections at the close Of DR.. Bow
ditch's two papers on Consumption in
America, in the last two numbers of
the Atlantic Monthly:


q. Never allow any one to sleep in
the same bed with a eOnsumptive.


"2. If possible, let the attendant or
friend sleep in an adjacent room,
within easy call, rather than in the
same room.


$50. Never let one sister q. e. one
of the same hereditary tendencies }
sleep with another who is tubercu-
lous. n


n Always have paid nurse to
attend to the mere drudgery of the
sick room.


80. As this will often be impossible,
let the attendant be sure to 20 out not
less than twice daily, aud fill her
lungs with pure air, or at least with
air different from chat OF the sick
room. . ...


ave conclude, as we began, iu
hope; and for final statement lay
down the following as our medical
faith on this important question:
When all men and women live in
properly placed and rightly construct
ed houses, and at all times attend
carefully to the hygienic laws Of mind
and body, in themselves and their off
spring, then will consumption, like
many kindred evils, be wholly eradi-
Gated, or made comparatively harm
less in its influence on the human
race"
Year: 1869

How to Treat the Bite Of q Dog.


DR.. Stephen Ware, Of Boston, in his
testimony in a recent case which grew
out Of the injuries from the bite of a
dog, where the teeth of the animal
penetrated the flesh, whether the dog
was known to be mad OF not, said he
should use the same precautions. He
would wash the wound with warm
water, extract all the virus possible
by sucking the wound with his lips,
and then cauterizing it deeply with
the caustic most readily obtained, but
should use potash if it could be pro-
cured at once. The time in which
the effects Of the bite of a mad dog
would be seen, varied from two to
three days to as many years, but if no
effects we're felt after two or three
months, as a general thing, the patient
might consider himself safe. Bites
made through clothing are seldom
productive Of much harm, as, even if
the dog is mad, the clothing absorbs
the virus before the teeth reach the
flesh. Almost all the fatal eases are
where the person was bitten on some
naked part.
Year: 1869

The Cincinnati Chronicle says the
command was given to mankind to
Incl ease and multiply; but one by
two seems to be the farthest the great
majority Of people are able to learn
the multiplication table; exceptionally,
however, two by two is reached, and
occasionally three. by two. Beyond
this-goo1 Lord deliver usl
Year: 1869

Attached to the Michigan Insane Asylum
is a greenhouse, where, at all times, flow
ers are in bloom, From the report of the
Superintendent. it seems that some of the
most violent lunaties, wNo have arrived in
irons, have been almost instantly charmed
down to a condition bOrdei'ug on sanity
by the presentation of bouquet.
Year: 1869

Thackeray AYERS that 'one Of the great
benefits a young man may derive from
,WOmen's society is that he is bound to be
respectful to them. Our education makes
us the most eminently selfish men in the
world. We fight for ourselves; we push
for ourselves: we cut the best slices of the
joint, at club dinners, for ourselves; we
yawn for ourselves, and light our pipes
and say we won't go ont; we prefer our
selves and our ease; and the greatest good
that comes 20 man from wOman's society
is that he has to think of somebody be-
sides himself, somebody to whom he is
bound to be constantly attentive and re-
spectfuI.n
Year: 1869

TIE BILL FOR THE RELIEF or Mrs. LIN
coLN.-The bill introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Morton, of Indiana, for the relief of Mary
Lincoln, widow Of the late President Lincoln,
rests upon good foundation. It is presented
in the shape Of claim for pension
due to the widow Of the Commander
in-Chief Of the army Of the United States,
slain by the enemy while acting in the
capacity Of the head Of the Union forces; and
in this shape we presume there will be no
objection to the pension proposed in either
house. Mr.. Sumner suggested that the annual
allowance to the widow be fixed at five thou
sand dollars, and the committee to which the
bill has been referred need have no fear that
this will be too much. Considering the high
prices Of living during and since the war, the
Presidents salary of twenty-five thousand dol
lars Is a pitiful sum; considering the fact
that the untimely death Of President Lincoln
cut of his family from the benefits Of nearly a
whole term Of four years; and considering the
good name, honor and dignity Of the govern
ment Of the United States this relief bill should
be passed without chaffering and without delay.
A graceful thing loses half its merit II not
gracefully done.
Year: 1869

RUNAWAY HoRsEs.-Is 1t true that horses
are more addicted to running away here than
elsewhere9 The other day correspondent
stated in the HERALD that horses in London
and in Paris did not run away, and that this
was an equine vice almost peculiar to the horse
ON this side the ocean. Do the horses also get
an American disposition to stake the respon-
sibility, and that eagerness to ''go it on their
own hook" that characterizes even the tender
est age of humanity among us? Or is it that
they merely abuse that confidence which
perhaps an American more than any other
reposes in their intelligence and docility? We
believe that horses are seldom left to stand
alone in the streets elsewhere so much as here,
and this is the origin Of three out of four Of
these accidents.
Year: 1869

WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID Or PIT is said that
the committee who called the republican eau
Gus for the nomination Of United States Sena-
tor have decided to exclude the representa-
tives Of the press from the Assembly chamber
during the caucus tonight. This is an un-
usual proceeding. The caucus for Speaker
was held with open doors, and there appears
to be no fair and honest reason why that
course should be deviated from In this case.
No event ofgreater interest to the people ofthis
State has occurred for some time than the nomi-
nation for United States Senator. The nomina-
ton is made equal to an election by the consttu-
ton ofthe two houses, ajoint republican majori-
ty existing. Can II be possible that the corrup-
ton with which the republicans are openly
charged in this matter Of Senator is
to be 80 Hagrantly practised on the floor
that they are afraid to allow the reporters
to see what members put their hands behind
their backs?
Year: 1869

AHouc-AAhhHOuu We SuHt AAOaus


There are certain laws working in our
trade development which, despite any opposi-
ton to them, gain the mastery and shape our
future. 1t is well that these governing trade
principles should be well understood, as by
proper knowledge Of their workings legislation
may give them greater value and direct them
in such a manner that we may make still
greater progress under them.


When the discovery was made that rail-
road could transport ton of goods for one
and half cents per mile, while the cost by
q common cart road was and is about
fifteen cents per ton per mile, IT was fact
ths. turned Old idsas upside down and set the
world In motion. It started looms into new
action; II enhanced the value Of land through
out the country; II set the farmer to produc-
ing; 1t created supplies which demanded ex-
changes; 1t made people acquainted with each
other and broke down old notions and jeal-
ousies. Distance ceased TO have effect upon
commercial honesty, and exchanges became
rapid and certain. Just in proportion to
the cost Of railway transportation 10
that upon common road was our
cost is concerned; but in breaking down dis
tances the saving has been far greater. A ton
Of freight goes rapidly upon a cart road II 1t
averages twenty miles per day. Upon rail-
road it may easily average four hundred miles
per day-that Is to say, twenty times the speed
of the olden time.


II, now, we apply these facts we find that in
time and for freighting purposes our Continent
is about eight days wide. Eight days Of good
cart road in old times was one hundred and
sixty miles. Under the best circumstances the
distance could not be greater. Here, there
fore, we demonstrate that our territory Is much
smaller in all the great and governing features
Of political stability and Capitalization than
that Of any first class Power which existed in
Europe thirty years since. If to this we add
the centralizing force Of the telegraph we shall
still more compact the mass and place our
greatest territorial extreme within very easy
reach. Taking the average width Of our terri
tory now at eight days travel and the average
length at three days, and comparing this with
the year 1880, with twenty miles per day
on common road, we find that,
so far as distance affects internal commerce,
we have in the United States to-day but nine
thousand six hundred square miles Of territory
about one-half the territorial area Of Denmark
and but two thirds that Of the Swiss Confede
ration. In the transportation Of man-tha
Year: 1869

THE FALL OF PARAGUAY.-It will be seen
by our telegraphc dispatches by cable that
Lopez has been driven from his second strong
hold at villeta, and is reported to have escaped
to the mountains with only few hundred
followers, while the Brazilian iron-clads have
gone to Asuncion. This may end the war, but
we doubt it. Lopez has shown so much pluck
in the contest that we incline to believe he
will carry out his threat Of making guerilla
war against the allies.
Year: 1869

MORE TICKET SPECULATION
church keeps itself before the speculative pub
lie. ''Sittings in the evening at Plymouth
church are advertised at sixteen dollars each
the year. This, we suppose, is the market
report Of the retail trade in piety. The heavy
dealers, the moneyed men, went to the auction
the other day and bought the pews by the year,
as the grocers 60 to the coalyard and buy coal
by the ton; and now they advertise the sale of
single seats for a single service" to realize, +"
just as the same grocers distribute their ton of
coal by the peck and the pailful.
Year: 1869

A SAFE THING-The monstrous safe, six
feet by six, which was rolled into the Delavan
House, at Albany, just preceding the arrival
of Marshall o. Roberts. The crowd of politi-
clans obsequiously bowed the monster through
their lines in the hall and no doubt measured
at glance its exact capacity. The significance
Of its arrival just in advance of the great
''third man" was noted by many a nod and
wink and nudge of the elbow. 1t looked like
huainess
Year: 1869

CoxNG TROUBLE m MExICo.-Our tele-
graphic advices from Mazatlan indicate the
approach Of new revolution IN Mexico, with
a design Of establishing an Independent re-
public in the northwestern portion Of that
country, to extend from Topic to the United
States line. All our advices from Mexico for
some time past have indicated q growing
weakness in the federal government, and we
shall not be surprised to see President Juarez
soon surrounded with great complications.
The increase Of our Pacific empire is exercis-
ing an adverse influence on the power of Mex
leo in its western States, and the debility of
the national government at this time is too
great to resist it.
Year: 1869

CURIOUS CoINcrDENoE.-The Grand Army
Of the Republic claims not to be political but
purely benevolent and patriotic body, yet
by singular coincidence II holds its conven-
ton in Albany just at the time when the strife
for the United States Senatorship is at Its
height 1t is said, too, that many Of its men,
bers give more attention to the rooms OF the
politicians than to the conventional hall Of the
Order. Why not call themselves the ''Grand
Army Of the Republicans" at once?