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Year: 1874

As we happen To- be Chairman OF
Central Committee of the supposed
defunct Democracy Of this county,
we stand ready at any moment to
aid in calling judicial Convention.
Let us hear soon, for We believe the
time draweth nigh when the Democ-
racy will become a power in the land.
-- -CAasit0u Leuder.
Year: 1874

President Grant approves Of deco
rating the graves Of the Union and
Confederate dead alike. He believes
the time has come when every feel
ling of fraternity should he encour-
aged, and advantage taken Of every
opportunity to remove any remaining
animosity occasioned by the war.
Year: 1874

C A. sHaFEK Is carrying on the Carriage
-. and Wagon busihess in the same build
ing whore he is prepared to do all kinds OF
woodwork in a neat and substa ntial mann
All persons in need of work are invited to
give them call at their shop. tE)
Year: 1874

MAsTs OF IRoN.-At the Delaware River
Iron Shipbuilding and Engine works, at Ches-
ter, Pa, the masts of the City Of Pekin9. are
now being finished. These, three IN number,
are of iron, one hundred and thirty eight feet
in lenghth. with diameter from eight to thir-
ty-six inches. They are formed of heavy
rolled plate iron, and their construction is
work Of difficulty. patience and labor. About
80 men are now engaged actively in their COM
pletiOn, some Of whom are obliged to work
inside, When We state that there is barely
room for q man inside, and his progress
through the tunnel is analogous to ascending
n tight chimney, with all the advantages in
favor of the sweep. inasmuch as the later can
keep his head perpendicular, while the work
ers must lie hOrizOntlly, and that, although
sheds are erected over the masts water poured
on to keep them cool, and air introduced by
pipes, the men cannot remain in their iron
prison house more than fifteen minutes, all can
realize the statement made recently by one
present, that"this is worse than working in
the caissons of the bridge over the East river
at New York city,
Year: 1874

]. Cade, an intelligent and observing farmer
living near QuenemO, informs that chinch-
bugs, at certain stage of their existence, at
tack and devour each other with the same char
acteristc nervousness that they do the young
stocks of corn and other grain. Going into his
field one day when the chinch-bugs were mil
lions in number, Mr.. Cade observed that they
were unusually active. On close inspection he
found that the bugs were engaged in a terrible
hand hand fght-the older and stronger ones
literally catching and devouring alive their
younger and weaker brethren. Mr.. Cade states
that he watched this strange sight until he was
fully satisfied that the chinch bugs do really eat
each other. On examining the ground he dis
covered that it was literally covered with the
pelts of the murdered bugs.


He says that the larger bugs-those that have
been commissioned with wings-would seize the
plump, half-grOwn little fellows aud suck the
skin dry, throw it away, catch another ''lamb of
the flock" and repeat the same operation until
their unnatural appetites were fully satiated.
This story presents the horrid chnch- bug to our
mind in an entirely new role, and before we ap-
ply for a copyright on the discovery, we should
like to know whether other farmers have obser-
we'd the same thing in connection with this their
worst enemy. We knew the chinch-bug was
capable of most any meanness; that he has bad
breath; that he is half brother to the bed-bug /;
that he reaps when he doesn't SOW, but we were
10th to believe that he is lost to parental affec
tion and the ties of consanguinity as to eat his
own species. Horrible, blood -curdling idea that
it isi-OsGge Chronicle.
Year: 1874

Remarkable Treatment Of q make bite.


DIR. Ashbel Smith, of Galveston, Texas, was
recently bitten in three places, just shove the
ankle. by a snake. Swelling began in less than
hve minutes from the biting, and in fifteen min
utes the pain had become so excruciating that ne
could not bear his weight on the limb, and be
was obliged to lie down, having previously
reached home. He had purposely delayed treat
ing the wound in order to observe the effects OF
the poison unmodifed by medical agents he
now took, in wine glass of water, hall tea
spoonful of saturated tincture of iodine About
fifteen minutes afterward he repeated the iodine
about twenty drops. A short time afler, per-
hsps fifteen or twenty minutes, third dose OF
lodine-hfteen drops-in twenty-five or thirty
minutes after the third. The orifces OF the
wounds were several times touched with the
tinctnre of iodine, and the leg. which was now
swollen from the ankle to the knee, was painted
with iodine. The pain was excrnciatlng, but IN
two or three hours abated sensibly. Three hO"rs
later, about l:30 in the morning, he fell asleep.
He awoke at sunrise with complete stiffness and
superficial soreness of the limb on touch, now
swollen to double its former size, but with no
pain worth mentioning. Nor has be since had
any suffering further than complete disease OF
the leg, and being obliged to have it all times
elevated. The foot participated in the swelling,
and If the leg hung down it became in few min
utes perfectly livid. The interest in the matter


lies in the efficacy of iodine remedy for yenO-
nous bites, in which DR.. Smith fully believes.
No other remedy whatever was used. and he is
confident that the bite was sufficiently poisonous
to have caused death.
Year: 1874

An English writer asserts that "honey proper
is not found in flowers; that the sweet inice
found there collected by bee sand afterw ard made
by them into honey prOpsr-marketable and
pTesentabe." He claims that the sweet mice
gathered by bees and deposited during the day
IN the comb is re-swallowed ere it is manufactn-
red into honey; that the juice is not honey when
gathered more than cream is butter before it is
churDed. He adds:


"FOr the sake of others who may wish TO see
for themselves, let me suggest a very simple ex-
pertinent. Some warm summer morning put n
strong swarm into a hive-full or half fnll of
empty cOmbs-say at o'clock A. NJ. Weigh
hive and bees before the latter begin to work
This swarm will probably collect five pounds of
crude honey the same day before o'clock p. NJ.
Remove the bees into another hive and extract
the honey. 1t will be found crude still, and as
unlike honey as cream is unlike butter. No pro-
cess or amount of evaporation will remove its
crudeness. 1t will mould; it will become sour
have never seen it crystalline like proper hon,
ey.


"If this is not conclusive evidence put another
swarm into another hive with empty combs. 1t
may collect the same weight of crude honey in
the same space of time; but let it remain in the
hive, and If the bees be prevented from gather
ing more by raiu artificial means, for thirty
six hours, all the crude stuff will be changed in-
to honey proper, and slowed away on the out
side of the combs. When bees come home from
the fields they empty their in the first emp
ty cells they can find, and go back to the field
for more; hence, on lifting and examining hive
at the close of a hard days work. we find the
clear limpid but crude fluid gathered that day
among the brood combs; there, for convenience
to be re-swallowed, and stored away at night"
Year: 1874

Unless a stacker is an expert, it Will always be


better to set pole firmly in the ground and


build the stack around it, A pole at the centre
will aid the stacker to carry up his work true;
and it will prevent a stack from leaning. When
commencing a stack bottom, the Ohio Farmer
says, set up two bundles against each other aud
others against these until circle is formed sop-
ing from centre to circumference, each row half
the length of sheaf further out than the one be-
fore it. Garry out the foundation in this way
until it is of the desired size and then at outside
lay q double row of bundles and press them down
we'll. The foundation being now prepared build
upon it by laying the tiers of sheaves from out
side toward the centre, each row tapping butts
TO bands. Gradually lay out until the stack has
attained the height desired-that is, let each
row of butts project trihe further than the one
beneath, so that the circumference of the stack
will gradually increase in size as it is carried up
20 a half way point, and then gradually draw in
until the top is reached. Caution must be used
not to make the stack to flaring. We have found
it good plen to let one teir of bundles project
some four inches at the point where it is decided
to begin drawing in for the top; this furnishes
what may be termed caves. If the stack is to
stand an indefinite time before threshing it will
nav to give considerable attention to thatching
The top. At all events it should have a topping
out of bog grass or hay.
Year: 1874




Mr.. Gold, of Connecticut, said at the VermOunt
Dairymen's meeting:


s.Tbe most natural food for stock is grass in
the summer, and dried grass in the winter; moth
inc else is necessary if there be plenty of that;
bnt we are under the necessity of varying it
somewhat Grass fails sometimes. The pastu-
rage has to be supplemented even in mid-sum-
mer. and the sowing of corn Is the most common.
This crop should be sown in succession so that it
NAV be used from time to time, as needed, and
shculd be cut when IL is in the bloom, in order
70 make it of the greatest value for feeding.
Formerly he was accustomed to change bis cows
from one field TO another, but be found that they
became uneasy and looked as though they were
bankeriup for still other green pastures, and
shrank in their milk His neighbor kept his in
one pasture and they were quiet and contented,
and the milk product always good. Feeding
should he regular. This was OF more Importance
than frequent feeding We feed our dry stock,
he said. twice a day, but milk stock should be
fed oftener and will do well on poor hay, oat
straw, cut and pnt into feed box, wetted, and
with portion of salt, meal or bran to Law with
this addition over night, and fed the next day.
Cattle should have free access to salt. Author
tiles decided that it had some influence on the
secret organs, precisely what was not well un-
derstood, but especially upon the milk secretion
Meal unless mixed with water does not increase
the flow of milk, and yes, some cows will thrive
well under its use, and seem to require IT, and il
will increase their milk. Meal may be fed to ad-
vantage in the spring, bringing the cows to grass
in good condition. Quality of milk is affected
by the food used. Bran makes good milk, but
should not be fed alone, but in connection with
cut feed and neal Bran costs $40 to s25 per ton
Its manurial valne is $14 per ton, making a cheap
fertilizer for the soil. ton of meal does not
add as much to the value of manure as bran.
Year: 1874

GREEN CORN PUDDING.-Take one dozen large
ears of sweet corn, and with a sharp knife cut
down the centre of each row, carefully scrapir 8
out all the milky pulp. Put the cobs into cold
and boil for half an hour Add the crushed corn


and boil another half hour. Pour in three pints
of sweet milk, and boil for fifteen minutes. Sea.
son to taste with salt and pepper. Rub two ia.
blespoonfuls of corn starch common wheat
-four into three tablespoOnfuls of bntter; add to
it enough of the warm soup to moisten it into a
thin paste, and stir it into soup. Beat three eggs
thoroughly; turn into the soup tureen, and pour
the boiling hot soup over them, stirring rapidly
so they will not curdle. One person must stiI
the soup while the other turns it upon the eggs


The eggs might be added while the soup is ON
the fire, only they would be apt to curdle and
ruin it. This is very appetizing and satisfying
dish, going far towards making Of good dinner
Year: 1874

REsCUING DROWNING PERsONs.-Many of your
readers may be familiar with the plan here pre-
sented, but it will bear repetition at this season


There is only one safe way in attempting to
rescue person from drowning, and that is to
approach him from behind, grasping each arm
firmly just above the elbows, buoying him up
and carefully keeping him before you. This may
be done by apy good swimmer who keeps his
presence of mind, even where the water is very
deep. Let swimmers while bathing practice this
method, if only for the amusement it affords, and
they will soon become experts.-Cor Grand Rap
ids Ed1le
Year: 1874

A Boston physician thinks that the process of
kneadlng bread is decidedly Objectionable at any
time, but in warm weather, when the perspira-
tion is in constant flow, it is the undoubted
means of introducing into bread impurities and
the seed of positive disease. The cleaner the
skin the more copioHs the perspiratioD. The
physician does not suggest any other method Of
bread making
Year: 1874

As the time is approaching for the farmers to
prepare the ground for wheat, we think our far
mers ought to take counsel and go to work syste-
maticaliy. Fall wheat will scarcely ever fail in
Kansas il il is cultivated. 0ur experience of
.eyenteen wears in Kansas convinces us that fall
wheat should he put in early. Pntthe ground in
good condition and drill the wheat both ways,
feeding but half the usual amount each way. If
yon do not wish TO drill both ways, run your
drill east and west, thus the north and south
winds 6l! no the furrows instead of blowing the
wheat ont of the ground as, it will do if the fur
rows are north and south.-EIdOrGde Times.
Year: 1874

Is the great remedy for Epileptic
Fits, Commissions and Spasms- It
is an infallible remedy, a certain
and sure cure in every case, of long
or short standing. it matters not
how many doctors have tried their
skill and failed. 1t has been tested
by hundreds. and never was known
to fail in a single case. Come or
send Immediately for medicines,
and seek relief. A trial bottle will
be sent free to any one suffering
with the above named diseases.
Year: 1874

ACCORDING to the Green Bay (wis.) Adrocate
they have an improved method of making res
a recent occasion man whose mind was some
what obfusticated by injury he had received
was married, and in reply to the all-important
question, "Will you take this woman to be your
lawfully welded wife" replied, Yes, and the
cow and the heifer and they ought to be fed. -
This answer was regarded as satisfactory.
Year: 1874

SINCE the Dunkers have Illuminated against
the piano, Western convert says: ave have
never taken much interest in the Dunkers' faith,
but our chief object in life just now is to convert
that muscular young woman next door,"
Year: 1874

THE Schenectady Star is responsible for the
statement that June bug. buzzing around in a
dark Watertown parlor, blew against young
ladys face with such force as to become hopeless
ly entanyled in her beau's moustache.
Year: 1874

have recently been made regarding the effects of
zine upon milk, and it was fouud that milk kept
in zinc vessels will continue sweet four or FIVE
hours longer than it viii in vessels of any other
material
Year: 1874

THESE are the days when cherries are ripe,
and you see small boys coming over board fences
like lightning, and hear something strike "bangr'
against the side of the fence, just after they get
over.
Year: 1874

SENsTBLE.-A Macon negro phil
osopher, discussing the relation of
the races, said: You know de
turkey, he roost on de fence, and
de goose he roost On de ground.
You pull de turkey off de fence, and
he will git up again. You crop his
wings, but some how Or nudder he's
gwine to get back on de fence.
Now you put de goose on de fence
an he will fall off he don't belong
dar. De turkey am the white man.
He's down now, but is gwine to git
up again. De niger is de goose.
He better stay whar he belongs
Year: 1874

A lady of large experience writes
as follows: There is no absolute
safety from moths excepting in the
absolute exclusion for the season, be-
fore the millers make their appear
ance, Furs can be kept in their boxes
without danger of any kind, by
simply pssting thin paper closely
around them. No aperture must be
left for the enterance of the miller,
though the paste need not touch
the boxes. Articles of any kind
can be tied up very tightly in pillow
cases, or sewed up in sheets. To
keep dresses, cloaks, ETC., without
creasing, suspended them near the
upper edge of the sheet, then lay
another sheet over, sew the two
sheets together a: the edges, then
sew loops at the upper edge of this
bag, and hang it up wherever you
please. Be careful that there be
no hole for the miller to enter. In
order to secure further safety it is
we'll to beat and brush the furs ant
garments we'll before putting then
away, and if it is anything that car
be heated, it may not be amiss t.
heat it enough to destroy the egg
that may be already laid.
Year: 1874

1t was a telling speach of Boud-
mot, the Cherokee representative
at Washington, in which he said
that this 'land of the free is the
common heritage of the white and
black races, while the original
owner of the soil alone is an alien
in the land of his birth.
Year: 1874

The Prairie Farmer permits this
to 60 into print: indispensable
as the pig is, however, in this sys-
tenn of live stock husbandry, the
goose yields far greater net profit.
Pigs will sometimes have cholera,
and they will occasionally die be-
fore their time, but the goose never.
1t is said on good authority that no
adult goose was ever sick or ever
known to die natural death. They
have been known to live seventy or
eighty years, and their average term
of life is equal to that of a man
They may, if confined, be starved
to death, of course, and while very
young may be killed by gross neg
lecU, uuI VIIuO f"i.l ~r--> tLe;~ Pins
and shown around the vicinity so as
to become familiar with its natural
resources, they will manage some
how to live without appreciable cost
to the owner, whatever they may
cost somebody else IT is probable
that the above is all true, but if the
geese are healthy they poison every
thing else that they come in cons
act with.
Year: 1874

Boy K1LLED.-A boy named
Parker: aged seven years, was
killed by several schoolfellows at
Burgh, in Norfolk, England, a few
days since. He was thrown by
them into dyke three or four times
and killed. He was injured so that
he could not get home, and was left
lying on the bank of the dyke,
where he died during the night.
The surgeon who examined the
body said that the lad had a great
and violent struggle with death, for
his hands were clenched and pieces
of grass were between his fingers,
while his countenance bore an ex-
preston of anxiety, dread and fear.
A wound on the temple was the
cause Of death.
Year: 1874

TINE DOES IT.-Time has won
derful power in taking the conceit
out of persons. When young man
first erncrges from the school and
enters upon the career of life, it is
painfully amusing to witness his
self-sufficiency. He would have all
the world to understand that he has
learned out that he is master
of all knowledge and can unravel
all mysteries. But as he grows
older, he grows wiser, he learns
that he knows a great deal less than
he supposed he did, and by the
time he reaches to three~score years,
he is prepared to adopt as his own
the sentiment Of John Wesley
when 1 was young, I was sure of
everything; in a few years, having
been mistaken a thousand times, /
was not half as sure of most things
as l was before. At present l am
hardly sure of any thing but what
God has revealed to man.
Year: 1874

We have no doubt the Columbus
Journal is very near right in tie
following explanation of what caused
the defeat of the New Constitution:


1t was found very early in tie can
vass that people did not desire to
read anything on the subject of the
New Constitution. The long session
of the Convention, and the tedious
stringing out ofliterature which filled
Ohio papers for so long under such
headings as Constitutional Conven-
tion Proceedings-One Hundred and
Fortieth Day." tired the people out,
till an article on the Constitution af-
fected them in much the same way
that letter from Dalzell does the
average editor. As people cannot be
forced to read articles on uninterest-
ing topics, no matter how much
learning able editors may put into
them, most journalists soon abandon
ed the Constitution as a topic, and
let the subject go by default after a
manner, concluding that the debates
in Convention had exhausted
the subject. But the debates ex-
hausted the reader more than the
subject, and there were probably not
a Thousand men in Ohio who had
read the New Constitution entirely
through, when they came to vote up
on it. They were generally satisfied
that there were no fatal errors in the
old one, since we have lived under it
for twenty years, and they would not
take the trouble to compare it with
the new. Then the temperance peo-
pie took the alarm, for fear the sep
arate provision ''for license" would
carry, and they voted in mass
against the Constitution, for fear that
that was the only way to defeat Ii
cenSe.
Year: 1874

Latest advices from Europe indi-
cate that the crop prospects were
not as good as had been previously
reported. In France the wheat crop
is only an average one, instead of the
extra one expected. Rye and barley
will be limited crop, and the oats
are injured by intense heat. Revers-
ing the old expression of sympathy
in bereavement, we can exclaim,
''their lossis our gain" The United
States can meet almost any demand
that may be made on her this year
TOhio Farmer.
Year: 1874

l. Resolved, That the times demand
above all things, honesty, integrity and the
strictest economy, in the administration of
public affairs, and that the people should
elect no man to Office whose record in these
respects is not free from suspicion or re-
proach.


2. That the course of the present Rep
resentative of this Congressional District
Hon. L. T. Neal, in accepting the increased
pay under the iniquitous law known as the
SALARY Grab, for nine months before TAX
ing his seat in Congress, merits the severest
censure of his constituents, and should
unite honest men of all parties in opposing
his reelection.


8. That it is the sense of this Conven-
ton that the Congress of the United States
should grant warrant for leo acres of land
without requiring residence thereon, to
every Union soldier who served in the war
of 1SG1-'C5, and who was honorably dis
charged from said service.


4. That we recognize the farming and
class of this country as the bone
and sinew of the nation, and that every at
tempt to remove taxation from chattels to
realty, from capital tolabor, is an outrage
upon the people and disgrace to our coun-
Year: 1874

The Poughkeepsie Eagle, in an article
on chow mistakes are made in newspa-
per" figures up the number of types in a
newspaper of the size of the Eagle at
100000, l. e., the actual number of bits
Of metal arranged and re-arranged every
day in preparing a newspaper of that size
for the press. We suppose people do
not think of the printing trade as one of
the most exact and particular of all the
handicrafts, but it is In making type,
variations that might be allowed in the
finest machinery would render the type
useless. 1t is very rarely that type fur
nished by two separate founderies can be
used together without great deal of
trouble, although they try to make it af-
ter the same standard We read once in
while of wonderful piece of cabinet
work, or mosaic work, containing ten,
twenty or a thousand pieces, the maker of
which has spent months, or even years in
producing it, and people go to see it as
great curiosity, but the most elaborate and
carefully fitted piece of work of this kind
does not compare with that which the
printer does every day, for minuteness of
detail and accuracy in fitting The man
who does the first is looked upon as an
artist-a marvel of skill, and if hundred
of his pieces are put in wrong side up or
turned the wrong way, it is not observed
in the general effect-but if the printer,


L.
gether in single day, puts one where an
other should be, or turns one the wrong
way, everybody sees it, and is amazed at
'the stupid carelessness of those print
ars ="