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Year: 1867

ROSE COURT OF INQuWY-ElGHTH Day
EVIDENCE FOR THE DErEECE.-Licutcnart-
Colonel e. A. Hartweli, Eleventh United
States infantry, testified that he was at
the Third Ward polls on the 23l ultilno
from II to about ! o'clock p. NJ. When
he reached there he found Grace street
fronting the polls blocked with q large
crowd, white and colorcd. There were,
besides, u number of wagons and carts,
which were also blockadiug the way. IL
pursuance of orders he detailed Lieutenant
Sloan to drive all persons away who had
voted. The crowd spoken of was not dis
orderly to all extent greater than large
crowds generally are. Witness saw Co
lionel Rose two or three times during
the day, and saw nothing in his conduct
to induce the belief that he was under
the influence Of liquor. He did not know
what Colonel Roses duties were until in
formed as to their purport by the Colonel
himself. Saw Colonel Rose order two
parties from q table, and remove it from
the immediate front of the polls, but did
not notice that he made any distinction
between the two. Witness did not hear
Colonel Rose give any orders to the sol
diers or the police. Witness executed
General Schofield's orders in clearing the
streets Immediately about the polls. Wit
ness gave, as near as he could remember,
the order from Generals Schofield and
Granger, given to him through an aid Of
General Granger. Witness noticed moth
ing in the conduct of the crowd about the
polls that he considered riotous.


J al Slok Lo
ordered to the polls to report to the chief
police officer and the registering officer on
duty there. He stationed his company at
convenient distance from the polls, and
several times during the day, and by or
der Of Colonel Rose, drove the crowd from
in front Of the polls by marching his com
pany through the street in line of battle or
by flank. He subsequently placed pa
trolls, in charge of non-commissioned Of
fcers, among the crowd. He saw Colonel
Rose several times during the day, and as
far as he knew be was perfectly sober.
I Witness did not hear him use any profane
or abusive language, nor did he see him
order any white voters from the polls.


Colonel Hartwell recalled : Did not see
Colonel Rose drive any persons away from
tue l)OliS Ou luc udJ "a tuc CtSSIIoA' Dlu
not hear him use any abusive language
towards any persons, nor did he hear him
swear at or curse any one that day. He
was by no means with Colonel Rose a,
all times during the day.


Lieutenant Jordan, Eleventh United
4 States, testified that he was on duty at the
Third Ward polls at night on the 23d
ultimo. Saw Colonel Rose several times
during the night. He did not notice any,
thing unusual about his conduct. Heard
him tell two white men who were going to-
wards the cOlored polls that they were not
allowed to 90 there. Did not hear Colonel
Rose swear at or curse any one that day
Nor did be hear him use any abusive OF
offensive language toward any one. Was
with Colonel Rose when the ballot-boxes
were carried to the City Hall that night
and did not think him under the influence
of liquor. He was in position that eve
ming to see Colonel Rose at all times. The
court then adjourned to meet at IL O'Clock
tD-mOrrOW.
Year: 1867

Coleman's Rural World gives the follow.
ing directions for drying apples /:


Dried apples are used as a necessity in
the place Of green apples. They are not
to be compa ed, of course, with the freshs
juicy fruit. This is in consequence Of an
error pm the part of those who dry them.
Almost ANY apples are taken to dry. Would
man take such to cato use for cook
ing We don't eat bad apples only when
We get them in dried stste. Not only
that, but we ges them in bad state, partly
rotten, sticking together, often fy-speeked.
It is habit more than anything else that
give US such srples; we are also sone-
what careless and considerably ignoFaaG.
We are not aware, for instance, or do nos
realize it, that an apple dried is still much
the same that it was before il dried. except
ing the JUICE. Thus a sour apple viii be
sour when dried, fully as sour as in Cts
green state. If hard and immature, thoss
qualities will be immensely retained. H
your apple is sweet, you get it sweet dried.
II it is good flavor when green, that
flavor will be retained when dried. If the
fruit is mellow, when dried it will retain
it's mellowness. The best dried apples,
perhaps, that are used, are the Rsopus
Spitzenbergs-n when made up as soon
as picked but when in q mellow state.
as they will be in February or March, or
earlier, If the season is warm. Made then.
when g. has no access to them, and pro-
perly dried, there is nothing finer than
the perfection of the green fruit itself
Thus, winter-drying of fruit is much bet
ter than when made earlier. The dried
fruit is then clean, bright and mellow, and
not harsh and sour-not tasting Of FOtten
apples or mould, unless carelessly mansg-
ed, dried too slow, and permitted to get
damp during the process fas is the case
somewhat nights in the absence Of fre),
or after for fruit when dry must be ksps
dry.


Treated thus, dried fruit is but little be.
low fresh fruit Try it.


Dried apples may be made of an excel
lent flavor in the following manner After
stewing them, or cooking them down to
soft mass, add "a few minutes before tax
ing them up) lemon or two, sliced thin,
and stir well into a mass. Some persons
who were unacqusinted with this method.
took them for some very superior fruit. It
makes nice sauce for the supper or break
| fast table.
Year: 1867

The chicken cholera is reported to pre-
vail extensively in portions of this and ad-
joining counties. Many farmers have lost
large numbers of their chickens from this
disease. An experienced poultry dealer
furnishes the following to an Indiana pa
per, which he guarantees a sure cure for
chichen cholera:


''Take lump of asafoetida, size of a
hulled walnut; dissolve in boiling water !;
mix with meal and feed chickens


We have used cslomel with very crafty
ing success in the treatment of this disease.
The dose is one drachm for every twenty
chickens, thoroughly mixed with corn
meal dough. The dose to be repeated the
second and third days.
Year: 1867

We are truly astonished. The following
is actually from Harper's Weekly Of the
current week:


We cannot help thinking, and saying
too, in strict confidence to the reader of
this journal, that stupid. and dull, and
voiceless as the public may be, he has
some rights which politicians will sooner
or later have to recognize. He is now
paying tax at the rate Of seven per cent.
more than is paid by the most heavily tax
ed people in Europe, and at the same time
he is paying for commodities of all kinds
and labor one hundred and fifty per cent.
more than any other people in the world.
In England the taxes are heavy, no doubt,
but food, clothing and rent are cheap. In
Russia living is expensive, but taxes are
light but here il the United States the
public groans under the simultaneous bur
den of heavy taxes aud high living. We
have a notion that sooner or later, he will
rebel against his load, and that the party
that laid it on his shoulders will itself be
laid pretty Low.


This is certainly striking, as it probably
more nearly apprsximates the truth than
anything spoken or pictured by the dis
gusringly Radical concern Of the Harper
Bros. during the past six years.
Year: 1867

MATRIMONIAL QUEsTIoE.-A young man
asked an old gentleman for his daughter
in marriage. The answer was go into the
orchard and bring parcel of apples. Give
me one-half of the whole number, and to
the mother one half the balance and half
an apple over, and to the daughter one
half the remainder and half an apple over,
and have one left for yourself without cut
ting an apple, then if she is willing you
can have her. He solved the question,
and hoe many did he bring
Year: 1867

It is lamentable fact that there are
many worthy people of the country who
foolishly imagine that they lower their Dig
nifty by going to hard work. There never
was more falacious idea harbored than
this. There is a natural repugnance to la
Dor on the part Of some Of our young men.
It is time that this feeling should be over
come, and the present condition of affairs
fully realized. No man loses the esteem of
his fellow man by accepting what misfOr-
tunes may fall to his lot, pulling off his
coat and going to work with good will to
retrieve his fortune. The following from
a correspondent Of the New Orleans Pic
eayss,ae touches upon The subject in the
right spirit. and we commend il to the
careful peFusal Of all


The lessons which adVersity teaches are
hard, yet they must be learned-and these
lessons are always useful. know it comes
hard for young man to walk behind a
plow who once rode behind fast trotter !;
nor is it agreeable to young lady to make
or put on her dresses all by herself, who
formerly had a couple of servants to take
irksome Jobs off her hands. Yet I can
see no other remedy, at least for those who
have simply been ruined by the war, and
the list is long one. That large major
ity have accepted the situation cheerfully
am glad to say is true--I mean the stu
alton to earn their own living all must do
it. And there are many who think, aud 1
am one of them, that in the long run it will
be all the better for the rising generation of
the South-a generation which is to follow
one notOrously brought up in ignorance of
work and incidence as to any useful occu-
patton. The race of men growing up will
be more muscular-the women stronger
and heartier-and their children again i'm
prove upon the stock. Ihave never heard
that exercise was hurtful, and have con-
suited good physicians on the subject.


How often do we hear people complain
that they have been out all day hunting for
a servant without SUCCESS. Had they turn
ed to in the morning they could have done
all their work themselves in a couple of
hours, and saved money and shoe-leather
by the operation. Too many people in the
South have been brought up to be waited
upon-they must now tie their own shoes,
and repeat the sooner they begin the bet
ter it will be. / know that many think
they can escape this state of things by go
ing to Brazil or some other out-of-the-way
country but toll is the common lot of
the poor man, the world over, so far as l
have seen, and in no part of the world is
toll as remunerative as in the Southern
States Of America. Let US work.
Year: 1867

The latest improvement in horticulture
is to produce cherries and grapes without
stones, or at least with etones greatly re-
duced, and the pulp largely increased in
size and flavor. The method is described
as follows At any time during the cold
season select branch that is to be used
afterwards for marching; split up careful
ly somewhat less than span from both
halves of the branch thus split scoop out
eleanly all the pith, then bring the split
halves together again, and keep them ban
daged till they have become thoroughly
united. At the usual time, the beginning
of the rains, march the branch thus treated
upon suitable stock, taking for the place
of union the portion of the branch fret be-
low where the split was made. Upon a
branch of the tree thus produced q similar
operation is formed, and so on in success
sion, the result being that the stone Of the
fruit becomes less aud less aftereach sue
cessive operation. In this manner Mala-
ga grapes have been paoduced without the
slightest vestige Of stone.
Year: 1867

A fellow was kicked out of an editorial
room the other day, for lmpudently stating
that che had seen in Germany fiddle SO
large that it required two horses to draw
the bow across the strings, which would
continue to sound for six weeks 90
Year: 1867

A paragraph has been going the rounds
concerning an old lady who has a NOUS
tache on her lip to which a cOtemporary
adds that it is not uncommon for young
ladies to have moustaches on their lips,
but it is rarely that they grow there.
Year: 1867

An old bachelor acquaintance remarked:
a great many anecdotes are related Of
personal bravery. We would like to see
that man who would deliberately allow Wo-
man to catch him making mouths at her
babv
Year: 1867

CuRB FoR CoRNs.-Scfape a piece of
common chalk. put small portion of it
upon the corn, and bind it with linen rag.
Repeat the application for few days, and
you will find the corn to come off like
shell and perfectly cured.
Year: 1867

CURE FOR A FELoN.-Steep a small
handful of wormwood in white Iye enough
to cover it. Steep until the strength is all
out. then make poultice of the lye with
Indian meal or bran change as often as
every two or three hours.
Year: 1867

A NEw LIGHrsMG RoD.-Mr c. c. Post, Of
Hinesburgh, has the agency for Vermont for the
Electro Magnetic Conductor or Combination Light
ming Rod. This is a rod which has been in use for
about Ave years, and yet its advantages over other
rods are so manifest that it is in good demand.
Every rod is a continuous cable Of iron and copper
wire combined, without break or joint. This COM
bination Of the two metals largely increases the
conducting power Of the rod, not only because cop
per Is a far better conductor than iron but also be-
cause the form of several intertwned wires gives
far greater conducting surface than be obtained
from a single rod Mr. Post is now at Burnham's
Hotel, where he will remain for a few days. and
give all information desired put up rods, or furnish
them for others to put up His post office address
is Hnesburgh, Vt.
Year: 1867

The Picnic Of the Sabbath School Of the Conere-
gational church on Wednesday, lasted through one
Of the most beautiful days of the and To-
Gated in beautiful spot, with woods at hand for
shade aud seats and swings, pond for boating
grass pats for croquet, and as lovely landscape
view as can be found any where in Vermont. We
suppose few are aware thar the valley Of the Wi
noosk from Green Mount Cemetery westward
with the mountain spurs running down on each side
and Camels Hump in the back ground, very close
" resembles, on a much smaller scale, the famous
Valley Of Chamounix at the foot Of Mont Blanc
The view most be taken from the hill in the rear Of
Mr.. Bradshaw's residence in Berlin, and nearly
midway between his house and the woods at the
brow Of the hin We have stereoscopcy both
Of Winoosd and Chamounix, and the general re-
semblance is remarkable
Year: 1867

Recently Milwaukee police officer detailed
70 take insane man to an asylum. The man
went along quietly until the end OF the journey
reached, when, instead Of being delivered TO the Of
icers Of the asylum, he very quietly delivered the
astonished officer, who, before he had opportun
ty for an explanation found himself locked up in a
cell and was told that strait jacket awaited him
he made any demonstrations. 1t some time be-
fore the officer could get his story believed and
change places with the unatic, who of boast-
ing OF his skill in outwittng his keeper.
Year: 1867

large company from Western New York has
gone Portland to talk the railroad question.
Several Vermonters joined them, and the editor OF
this paper would gladly have joined them if he could
Year: 1867

The homes of America will not be
what they should be until a true idea
OF life shall become more widely i'm
planted. The worship of the dollar
does more TO degrade American
homes than anything else. The chief
end of life is TO gather gold, and that
gold is counted lost that hangs a pic.
ture upon the wall, which purchases
flowers for the yard, which buys a
toy or book for the eager hand of
childhood. Is this the whole of hu-
man life? Then it is a mean, meagre.
and most undesirable thing. A child
will 60 forth from stall. glad to find
free air aud wider pasture. The in
tiuence Of sueh home upon him in
after life. will be just none at all. or
nothing good. Thousands are rush
ing from homes like these every wear.
They crowd into cities. They crowd
into villages. They swarm into all
places where life is clothed with a
higher significance and old shell
or home is deserted by every bird as
soon rs it can fly. Ancestral home.
steads and patrimonial acres have no
sacredness and when the father and
mother die, the strangers money and
the strangers presence oblitera,e as.
sociations that should be among the
most sacred of all things.


l would have you build up for your
selves and for your children, a home
that will never be lightly parted with
"a home which will be to all whose
lives are associated with it, the most
interesting, precious spot Oh earth.
would have that home the abode of
dignity. beauty, grace. love. genial
friendship, and happy associations.
Out from such home would have
good influence flow into neighbor-
hoods. In such home would sec
ambition taking root and receiving
generous culture. AID then l would
see you young husbands and voting
wives happy. Do not deprive your
selves Of such influences rs will come
through 40 institution like this. No
money can pay you for such depriy-
alton. No circumstances but those of
utter poverty can justify you in deny
ing these influences to your children.
Timothy 1ucom6.
Year: 1867

Now that the season has arrived
when long evenings and ample time
to read are suggestive of subscriptions
for weekly newspapers, we have a
word Of entreaty to address to our
country friends throughout the State
That word is in behalf of the county
newspaper. We advise, urge and in
sis, that the first duty in rela,ion to
newspaper reading Of every intelli-
gent citizen of each county in Iowa.
is to subscribe for and pay for his
county paper. That duty performed,
the luxury of large newspaper from
another part Of the State. or from an
eastern city. may well be INDUCED 10.
But the duty before the luxury in
every case.


We intrude this advice and entreaty
because made painfully conscious, as
We daily look over our State excllang-
es, that a large number Of low, coun-
ty papers are receiving support
shameiully dispropor,ionate to their
merits. 1t would be easy to designate
county seats in which are published
newspapers giving evidence weekly
Of a high order of editorial ability yet
so poorly sustained that the faithful
and industrious editor aud publisher
can barely make both ends meet and
escape bankruptcy while in the same
Iowa town clubs are made up for
Chicago papers by the hundred, SIM
ply because these journals are furnish
ed at fifty cents, or often only twenty
five cents copy cheaper than the
home paper.


Friends. these things onght not TO
be. The citizen Who does not SUBJ
scribe for his own home paper is not
a true friend to his town, or to his
county. or to himself. A well furnirh-
cd home will be well supplied with
periodical literature, and, of course,
with several copies regularly Of the
best newspapers; but an lows home
without the county newspaper should
be regarded rs al anamoly TO be toll
Grated only under the dircst necessity
and scverest penury.


Again We say, subscribe for your
county paper first. and say il the more
earnestly and disinterestedly now that
the advertisements Of the Gazette, Of.
fering special inducements to sub
scribers for 1868, are being extensive
~ circulated in a large number Of
Iowa counties.-D Darenport Gazette.


-
Year: 1867

II is not safe always TO take cable dis
patches at par vdl,te. We have one an
nouncement to-day, and tomorrow fat
contradiction Of the previous telegram,
1t is our duty as o journalist to chronicle
these reports, but not always well for the
reader to place implicit confidence IN their
truthfulness. The dispatch received on
the evening Of May Sd Informs us that
Count BIsNARK announced that day in the
Prussian Diet that the Government had
agreed to the propositions for the neutrali.
zation Of Luxembourg. II this is true the
Peace Conference, which meets in London
tomorrow, will have q light duty to per-
form and in the light of this fact what
becomes Of the predictions of the war
prophetsH


We have another announcement which
we shall not be able to fully explain until
we get tho particulars per steamer. 1t is
that the DERBY government has been
beaten on its reform bill by n majority Of
81. Precisely what feature or features Of
that bill were obnoxious the telegram does
not state. 1t has been heretofore stated
that the liberal majority in the House is
only sixty, and there are, VIC believe, some
six votes held by those who ore called con.
servatives, and if these voted with the
liberals it would only make sixty-six
Where the eighty.one majority against the
bill were obtained the cable does not tell
us.


Ordinarily, the British Ministry is ex.
pected to resign when beaten, and it is
somewhat novel that the Cabinet, ut head
Of which stands Lord DERBY, still holds
the reins, or il it does not maintain its
power and place the cable is behindhand
in not announcing its retiracy. Perhaps
the solution Of this question may be that
the reform bill is not regarded as party
measure. II will be difficult matter, we
opine, to bring enough Of the members of
the House Of Commons to vote for the
extension of the franchise, lest they might
be the losers by this means. They know
their constituents now, but if they are in
creased it is not certain who will be elected
at the next Hastings thereafter. The pr-
vileged classes OF Great Britain will not
give up their ancient right to rule without
q struggle.
Year: 1867

abused by her husband, would tell him


that she would never cease to pray
for him, and that she hoped to see him
yet christian though she died be-
fore that wish was accomplished, the
old man was converted at the age of
T6, and died true christian. Imme-
diately after his conversion, Weaver
developed a wonderful natural elo-
quence and capacity for touching the
hearts of men of his class. Bishop
Noel invited him to preach in his pull
pit in London, and when remonstrat-
ed with by many friends for his alleged
indiscretion and improper conduct in
allowing a man to preach who had
never been ordained, the Bishop re-
piled that to him it was evident that


if the Lord had ordained a man to
preach, it made little difference wheth-
er man had said any thing to him or
not; so Weaver came to London and
produced a great sensation. The rev.
erend speaker illustrated his account
of Weaver by number of anecdotes
illustrative of the character Of the man
and his style of preaching, and con-
cluded by stating that, in his opinion,


mo man since Whitefeld had done so
much good or accomplished so great a
work in preaching Gods Word" Rich
ard Baily, butcher, and Mr.. Stock, a
carpenter, were also mentioned as
among the leaders of this great move
ment. Mr.. Smith said that the great
strength of this kind of preaching is
that they preach Christ Jesus only, and
do not attempt to confute the princ-i
pies or preiudices Of others. If q
preacher was in a Roman Catholic
neighborhood he did not occupy him.
self with abusing the Catholics-indeed
said the speaker, "You may preach


against the Catholics till you are gray,


bat till you can get class of women
like their noble Sisters of Charity,
who will 60 and visit the poor, and at
tend on those sick in the hospitals,
they will beat you ten to one, and so
they ought to. There was but one
Florence Nightengale, when there
should have been a thousand. The
only way to overcome these people is
TO outdo them in works of charity and
mercy. If you haven't any charity
for the Thousands of the poor who per-
ish you haven't any Christianity worth
having" Mr.. Carter is another of
these London preachers whose labora
lie especiallo among thieves and pick
pockets, and after few hours labor he
has now a church of over 500 reformed
persons. His wife and he began their
work on the ''tea meeting" plain, and
at their earlier meetings they dared
not have knives, forks, or spoons, for
fear they should be stolen, and they
had to watch every cup and take it.
away as soon as emptied. The reyer-
end gentleman closed with an urgent
appeal to Americans not to let our
transatlanticfrie beat Us in this good
work or in anything else so noble"
Year: 1867

If small shavings of camphor are
thrown on the surface Of perfectly
clern water, in a large basin, the pieces
Immediately begin to move rapidly,
some around on their centres, others
from place to place. The cause of these
motions is unknown.