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Year: 1859

Prospectors continue to work around Humphreys
Gulch, in Symmes township, Hamilton county, Ohio
and find gold in small PARTICLES but not enough as
yet to compensate for the labor of digging. The
placers have been sufficiently tested to satisfy the
in the guches of that locality. No effort to sink
deeply into the earth for prospect has yet been
mada
Year: 1859

"THE LOST ARTs."-The Hartford Press mentions
that I'm tearing down the old Wyllys mansion on
the Charter Oak place in that city, an old manu-
script receipt book found between the parti-
tions where it had fallen many years ago. Some
extracts are given which are notenumerated among
the "lost arts:


to kill meet or any thing so as to have the meet
sweet let the new moon Be five days old


to cure you from suffering take piece of lead
and wear it in the holler of your neack


to skare Rats away Rite paper and comm and
the rats to quit your house and 90 somewhere elce
forth with greace the paper well and lay it in the
suller they will eat the paper up


to cure corns on your toes: fust cut your corns
then take a rat skin Bind it on your toes


for deefness take a Rne ofpork and put it in your
care and KEEP it thare


for wichcraft get sweet farm (fern) and tie it
ABOUT your neck and ware it long time


for deaf ness find one old brown Wood picker kill
him and get his Brans brains and put in your ears
and war it in your ears.


for weake peple take large frog and cut him
in two and Bind him oil your stomac split open and
so on after mother.
Year: 1859

The Buffalo On. Y. Commercial says that one day
last week an employee of the railroad between
Lewiston and the Falls, whose business it is to keep
lookout for land slides and to warn trains of dan
ger, stepped out of his little guard house, when
ton or two of rock from the overhanging cliff fell
and crushed the house.
Year: 1859

A report of what was said and done last evening
at meeting Of the American Geographical and
Statistical Society commemorative of Humboldt,
will be found on another page Of this paper
Year: 1859

LAUGHTER AND HEALTH-Cheerful-
ness is the elixir of life. A hearty laugh
is more potential for health and virtue,
than all the potions of pill bags and the
creeds of semi in6del pulpits,


Are you upwell? Dangerously bad ?
Well do you expect that health will come
to you, and take possession of your torpid
system, as you sit communing with your
blue spirits


If you wish to remain comfortable and
happy through life's restless din, you
must cultivate hopefulness in your soul
Look on the pleasant side-not forgetting
realities-"fear not only believe" How
plain and simple nature portrays how she
laughs in the fullness Of JOY All beings
on earth, and in the air, unite in one voice
of the purest praise and exultation to ma
'ure's God, Why despair? Away Will
melancholy--laugh at something, any
thing, or nothing but laugh, Put t
pleasant joke on your associate, and ALLOW
him to return a similar one.


Laughter is a panacca for ills, bodil.
and mental 1t dissipates gloom, tighten
care, and drives pain and the blue devil
off in a hurry2 Try it. Laugh.
Year: 1859

1t would be well for every reader of the
item, which we cut from the
Grand Junction (Tenn) Qaid Nunc, Of
the 9th inst, to cut it out and preserve it.
The White Ash is abundant in many parts
of this and the adjoining States, and it
would be well to keep the Drug Stores
supplied with the leaves;


A little girl, of this vicinity, was cured
of a rattlesnake bite recently, by the use
of a strong decoction Of white ash leaves,
taken internally, and also applied to the
wound The decoction was not used un-
til the day after she was bitten. Had it
been used Immediately after receiving the
bite, there would probably have been no
swelling at all,


There is species of black snake (not
poisonous) which always fights the rattle
snake when lac meets him, and always kills
him. But, in the encounter he generally
receives many wounds from the iangs OF
his poisonous antagonist. These he cures
by chewing white ash leaves and applying
his saliva, charged with their pulpy juice
as sort Of liniment. The instinct Of the
reptile suggested the remedy to man.
Year: 1859

The Democrats will have sixty-six reg
ular members from the South and twenty
six from the North making ninety two in
all Thor se six Independent Democrats
elected, We House on the question of
organization will be thus divided:
Year: 1859

COMMENTS ON THE REsuTs.--In addition to the
comments from leading journals which we have
heretofore published upon the result of the recent
elections we add the following from Vicksburg
Wing;


We hardly know how we can give the most con-
vincing evidence Of our joy at the success Of the
gallant Etheridge---wc are so glad. Glorious as is
the triumph in the noble Commonwealth north of us
yet we should have had our enthusiasm much damp
ened were Etheridge Defeated. His election will be
hailed with qualification throughout the naton.--


He is needed in Congress just at this time. The first
20 place his heel on the new disunion dogma, the
revival Of the slave trade he is wanted there to fight


the monster at the next session. and we particularly
commend 10 his attention a noisy little demagogue,
who wants To be considered the leader in Congress
of this movement, who wiz probably be sent to Con
gress from this State, Again we congratulate the
country on the election Of Emerson Etheridge-
Tennessee has done noby Three times three for
Tennesseel
Year: 1859

WOMEN TARRING AND FRATHERING WO-
MAN.-On last Friday afternoon, says the
Chicago Democrat, three women, living in the
town of South Bend, Indiana, took fourth
woman, a sort of grass. widow, and said to be
OF loose morals, stripped her clothes entirely
from her, leaving nothing upon her but her
shoes and stockings, cut OF her hair, and tar
red and feathered her from head to foot! This
was all done in the public streets of that town,
In broad daylight and in the presence of q
large crowd, who, incredible as it may appear,
stood by and saw this infamous act perpetra-
ted and raised no hand to stop it. The women
who were the perpetrators of this outrage
were residents of South Bend, members of
church, and two of them were married. The
victim of their rage or jealousy, as soon as she
escaped from the clutches of her inhuman
persecuto ran to the shop of blacksmith
close by who received her, shut the door upon
her pursuers and furnished her with oil, 6c.,
to remove the tar, and with clothing to hide
her. The respectable citizens Of South Bend
are very much excited about this outrage, and
propose to raise money to enable the woman
to properly prosecute the infuriated Jexebels
who so disgraced their sex.
Year: 1859

RAILROAD BRIDGE BCRNT-NarroiC Escape
of Train.--The engineer OF a train on the
Grand Trunk Railroad, which left Island
about four miles south Of the boundary line


discovered small light on the track, and fear
ing that all was not right immediately shut
on steam and reversed his engine, and, At the
same time, sounded the alarm for the brakes
TO BE- applied. He succeeded in stopping the
train within abont thirty feet of burning
bridge, nearly consumed, and which stood
abont forty feet from the water. Great credit
Is due 10 the engineer, Mr. Mark King fbr his
caution and presence Of mind in thus saving
many Hives and his trsin from destruction
The bridge probably took fire from sparks
dropped by the last train that passed over ths
road on the preceding night Bestsa TSarsfer,
Year: 1859

The prominent reason for using mules in


teaming and farm labor in preference 10 horses


are briefly exhibited in the following views =


They live to much greater age mule has
scarcely attained his natural strength at twelve
years old, an age in which horses have com


mcnced rapid deterioration in value and use
funess the average life of the mule is about
thirty years, but often at forty they are known
to perform efficiently the most laborious ser


vices. A team of mules will accomplish al


most the labor of horses with a consumption
of about one-third less provendcr. Within the
last few years mules have been extensively in
troduced into the teamng operations of the
manufacturing district in which | reside and
are universally considered there more efficient
and economical for that use than horses
Mules are subject to but few of the diseases
which prevail, and are so destructive among
horses. Theil hard skin and short hair render
them less liable be to CALLED by the harness af
fccted by cutaneous diseases They are said
never to be infested by verluin. The hoof of
the mule is essentially a horny substance, and
of slow growth and hence his shoes are seldom
cast or displaced in the position, but remain
until worn ont. firmly on the feet. The vision
of the mule is much more quick and distinct
than that of the horse, and therefore they arc
less liable to shy or become frightened. They
are sure-fou' ed to proverb. The mule excels
the horse and emulates the OK in his steady
and uniform efforts in labor. 1t is objected to
mules that besides their diSagreeable blaying.
they are obstinate and slow, but these defects
believe may be overcome by gentleness and
Genesee Farmer.
Year: 1859

A merchant, who wished to celebrate his
daughters wedding, collected a party of her
young companions they encirced around her.
wishing much happiness to the youthful bride
and her chosen one. Her father gazed proudly
on the lovely bride, and hoped that as bright
prospects for the future might open for the rest
of his children, who were playing among the
guests. Passing through the ball of the base
ment, he met a servant who was carrying a
lighted candle in her hand and without a can
dle-stick. He blamed her for such conduct,
and went into the kitchen to see about supper.
The girl soon returned, but without the cam
dIe The merchant Immediately recollectcd
that several barrels of gunpowder had been
placed in the cellar during the day, and that
one of them had been opened.


where is your candle?" he inquired, in
the utmost alarm.


"I couldn't bring it up with me for my
arms were full of wood replied the girl


Where did you put it q"


"Well. Id no candlestick, SO l stuck it in
some black sand that's in the small barrel"


Her master dashed down the stairs-the
passage was long and dark-his knees threat
ened to give way under him-his breath was
choked-hs flesh seemed dry and parched, as
if he clearly felt the suffocatiEg blast of death.
| At the end of the cellar under the very room
where his children and their friends were revel-
| ing in their felicity, he saw the open barrel OF
powder full to the top; the candle stuck loosely
in the grain, with a long red snuff of burnt
wick; this sight seemed to wither all his powers
the laughter of the company struck upon hi;
ear like the knell of death. He stood d mo
ment unable to move. The music commenced
above, the feet of the dancers responded with
vivacity the floor shook, and the loose bottles
in the cellar jingled with the motion. HI
fancied the candle moved-was falling witt
desperate energy he sprang forward-but how
to remove it !? the slightest touch would caus'
the red-hot wick to fall into the powder
With unequaled presence of mind, he placed {
hand on each side of the candle with the oper
palm upwards, and the fingers pointed toward
the object of his care, which, as his hands met
was secured in the clasping of his fingers, an6
safely moved away from its dangerous position
When he reached the head of the stairs, h
smiled at his previous alarm-but the reaction
was powerful, and he fell into fits of most VIC
lent laughter. He was conveyed to his bee
senseless, and many weeks elapsed ere hi
nerves recovered sufficiently to allow him t.
resume his business-BoStoa True Flag.
Year: 1859

Never try to keep out of any ones way when
you owe him anything unless it be a thrash
ing. It is bad enough, in all conscience, to be
in debt, but don't make your condition worse
by growing mean under its pressure. When
you absolutely cannot pay up at the appointed
time, don't make-believe-sick, don't skulk
about in out-of the-way streets to avoid meet
ing your creditor, don't sneak around the first
corner when you catch sight of him before he
has seen you. All such conduct is unmanly.
No doubt you feel averse to standing face to
face with man to whom you are a debtor
pay day past and you debtor still-it is NOR
tifying, very but it is only one of the natural
consequences of borrowing; and as you have
incurred the..penalty, why meet it like a man
Face your creditor let him know that you
neither forget the debt, nor underrate his pa
tience with you. Say frankly that you are very
sorry to keep him so long out of his money, and
that you will pay up fast and as soon as you
possibly can.


This is the only creditable way to conduct
yourself in the ease. There is no respect due
to men or women, who, failing to be able to
meet their payments at fhe proper time, instead
Of going at once and explaining the reason why
they fail, and doing and saying all they can to
assure their creditors that they mean no dishon-
esty. just sneak about carefully, anxious only tc
shun the creditors's sight. Be manly.
Year: 1859

A gardener having occasion to newly paint
the wood work in the interior of bis green house
determined to make trial Of the absorption
of heat by black color, with a view OF proniRot-
ing the maturity of his plants. and shrubs, by
means of greater quentity d. caloric.9 In the
preparation Of the pa. t he used coal tar, that
Is to say, tar prOcua by the distillation of
coal in the manufacture of gas This coal far,
besides the advantage Of lis color, offers con
siderable economy in painting, being about one
eighth Of the price Of the material used in mix
ing black paint. The painting here in uGes-
tIon W',s executed before the setting in of win
ter On the return of spring the gardener OBJ
served, with no less surprise thar satisfaction
that the spiders and other insects which had
infected his green house had totally disappear


ed. He moreover remarked that a vine. train


cd on an cspaher, which for the space Of two
years had been sensibly decaying,A and which
he had purposcd to uproot for the purpose of
planting another in its place, had acquired such
renewed health and vigor as to be capable of
producing xc .lelt table grapes. Havingap-
piled his new paint to the props trellases and
espalier Of all his sickly trees and shrubs, as
well as those which, though in full bloom, were
being devoured by insects. success again crown
ed his experiment. Caterpillers and snails dis
appeared the insects had vanished from The
green house. The fruits produced by the trees
thus treated have ELECTED the approval and eu-
logy of purchasers. Similar experiments tried
on the Gironde have, it is said been attended
by similar results.-London Builder BIO
Year: 1859

Many of our readers have heard of the
" Fist Families of Virginia !" but few we
take it know how the term originated. An
exchange explains it thus:


In the early settlement of that state, it was
found impossible to colonize it unless women
went there. Accordingly ship load was sent
out, but no planter was allowed to marry one
of them until he had first pain one hundred
pounds of tobacco for her passage. When the
second ship load came, no one would pay more
than seventy-fve pounds for the matrimonial
privilege, except it were very superior article.
Consequently the descendants of all those who
were sold for one hundred pounds of tobacco
were ranked as the first families, while those
who brought but seventy-five pounds are now
ranked as the second families and the reason
why no one can ever find any of the second
families, is because you can't get a Virginian
to admit that his mother only brought seventy
five pounds Of tobacco.
Year: 1859

1t is quite a common custom for cartmcn
and hostlerS to " founder noble horses, by the
erroneous practice of dashing cold water on
their legs when they are dirty. In regard to
this practice, Sir George Stephens. the eminent
veterinary surgeon, says: Whenever it is
necessary to wash horses legs, do it in the
morning. Most grooms, acting on a different
principle wash them as soon as the animal
comes in. am convinced this is ii bad prac-
tice. When the roads are dirty and the wea-
ther wet, and the legs already soaked, washing
can do no harm; but to deluge the legs with
water the moment ahorse enters the yard, heat
cd with exercise, is, to my mind, as unnatural
and absurd as to jump into shower bath af
ter playing an hour at cricket. My plan is,
rubbing down with straw and dry brush and
the next morning wash az clean us soap and wa
ter can make them. Pick nd wash the soles
as soon as the horse comes in.
Year: 1859

A writer in the Cleveland Herald thus
speaks of the pianos that fill the streets of
that city mith melody through the parlor win
dows of u summer evening


" started to go up Euclid street. From
the window of No, on the right, u maiden
lady Of a certain age and very uncertain voice,
attempted to induce some one to Whisper
what thou feelest,' while at the same time,
from No, on the other side, young Miss
is advising Miss Lucy to take her time
rushed on to No.; on the right two young
ladies with much voice and less knowledge of
Solfeiggo, are trying to attract attention by
screaming Hear me. Norma. And their
brother, with no very clear conception of har-
mony or tempo, is foundering through the ac-
compartment.


passed on. and at No. a young lady
was imploring some Que to .' Come, oh come
with mel over some kind of sea, while
just opposite l am told that some one is" Ever
dreaming of me-" while another informs me
that the Fierce flames are raging" and she
- RACES " while she tells it, and yet another
with nasal voice is swelling on that ponder
Gus song of - Gentle Annie anything but
gentle by this time. for the terrible thing has
been fiddled, sung, blown, whistIed, footed and
ground till the car fairly aches in vain at
tempts to receive and cary that upper third in
the third measure to the tympanum.
Year: 1859

valuable discovery in the cultivation of
hops has just been communicated to the French
Academy. Like most agricultural improve
Inents, it has been the result of observations
made by a laboring peasant. 1t consists in
making the plant run III n horizontal direction
instead of climbing up the pole. This is man
aged by means of low trellis work of the
simplest construction. The advantages of this
mode of culture are numerous. In the first
place, it enables the grower to investigate the
plant while growing and cleanse ii from the nll-
merous insects which injure it TO so vast an
extent ; then it is protected from the sun, which
always destroys the upper shoots it obviates
the great destruction Of hops in stormy wealth
er, when the winds lay whole hep grounds
from the heights of the poles and most of all
it enables the gathering Of the cones to take
place without uprooting the plant besides per
mitting the selection of the Iipest ones first
and preventing the great loss which arises
from the necessity of tearing down the whole
plant to get at the ripest blossoms.
Year: 1859

I. Husk your corn as soon as possiblc.-
Leaving in the shock until the winter rains
soak through, and the SHOWS cover it, thus par
TALLY spelling the grain, should be avoided
Beside, hay is scarce. and if the leaves and
stalks are properly taken care of, they will as
sist greatly in wintering the stock. To leave
the stalks in the field, whet' cut or uncut. is
bad policy, for the elements soon destroy all.
or nearly all the nutritious matter contained in
them, and cattle do not like to fill their stom-
achs with bIcached fibre, instead of proper
food.


II. Look well to your stock; some farmers
let theirs run in the lots without any feeling
or attention, until the ground is hard frozen.
and the animals have lost instead of gained
flesh. All should understand that if stock arc
allowed to lose flesh at this season, it is almost
impossible to bring them up again during the
winter and besides, fat cattle really need less
food than poor ones. The animal heat is more
easily kept up Numbers of cattle die during
the winter and in early spring, from this want
of attention in the fall.


Ill Gather fallen leaves and use them for
bedding stock. They make the best kind of
manure, and also excellent bedding They
are easily gathered with large rake. Saving
leaves from the forest, costs the trouble of col
lecting only, and their value as manure alone
far exceeds this.


". Keep cellars we'll ventilated as long as
possible. Remove fruit into them before frost
Injuries it. Temperature of cellar should not
fall below the freezing point at any time
Too much heat or cold are both injurious to
fruits or roots.


" Feed hogs we'll Cooked food goes far
ther than when fed dry. Keep their pens
clean, and with good bedding. There is now
no need of their wallowing in mud or filth, aud
the drier and cleaner they are kept the
better. In some places the mast is very
plentiful this season, and hogs fed in the woods
in such places, get quite fat. In Europe
acorns are gathered for this purpose. But
few weeks feeding on good corr, before Kill
ling is essential to the making Of superior
pork.


vi. Plow dry, stiff, clay hand before the
winter sets in. The frost pulverizes the SOIL
and the exposure kills many injurious insects
that have gone into winter quarters. Deep
blowing is, however, necessary to have much
effect in this way. Draining may be carried
on as long as the ground remains open. When
the ground can be dug is always good time
to perform this kind Of labor Ohto Farmer.
Year: 1859

Grape vines should not be trimmed in the
spring. The proper time is November, BY
trimming at that season we get rid Of large
amount of surface for continued evaporation
all Of which is increased by winds passing
over the surface of larger amount of vine;
the ends where the cutting occur are sure not
to bleed when growth commences; they may
then be firmly tied without the chance of break
ing or injuriug the swollen buds. The cut
tings made from the trimmings at this season
are Of better quality for spring use.
Year: 1859

William L. Morgan, of Pottsville, Warren
county, Ind, says that the seed from the butt
end Of an ear of corn will ripen its prodnct all
at the same time, and some three weeks earlier
than seed from the little end of the same ear
He recommends farmers 10 break their seed corn
in two in the middle, and use the butt ends
only for seed
Year: 1859

A bill is under consideration in the Legisla-
ture of Tennessee, providing that all free per-
sons of color over eighteen and under fifty
years of age shall either Leave the State or go
into slavery.
Year: 1859

mously agreed to admit no illumination or
other expression Of Joy near her dwelling.
on the day set apart by royal proclamation
throughout the kingdom. lest they should
seem, 10y an ill-,imed triumph. TO insult
Lcr grief lie was an only child and one
Of the most dutiful and affccticnatc Of sons
His father died soon after ts departure fer
the st Lawrance and thus widowed and
childless, she was the marked object Of pub
lie pity. by great and particular atiliction. "


What could refinement Do for those
anywhere, in the Poets, if You can, a more
beautiful illustration of that Unborn, thought
ful ecntieness that is nobler than royal
blood. That widows dwelling, left dark
and lonely, and sacred unto sorrow. in the
midst Of the rejoicings of an Empire, was
more eloquent of the good there i in men.
than an hundred '' famous victories