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Year: 1877

REMEDY FOR KICKING Cows.-Having
had, several years ago, some experience
with kicking COWS, and having tried many
methods to manage them, | found none
90 good and simple as the one I will en-
deavor to describe: Put the COW into a
stall; if the stalls are not partitioned
make rail partition Zone rail may answer
If put at the right height on the left of
the COW; let her stand close to this parti-
ton, and with front feet as close to the
manger as possible; then take rail or
strong scantling and lay it diagonally
from the manger to the rail partition; cut
notch in the manger to drop this rail in /;
press it tight against the right hind leg
just above the udder; and nail where it
crosses the partition an upright piece to
prevent this rail from slipping back.
Once fixed in this way the rail can be
slipped in or out very quickly, and if
made right the cow can neither step side
ways, forward, nor backward, and conse-
quently cannot lift her hind legs up and
kick, and in most cases will, in course of
time, if gently treated, entirely forget the
kicking, so she may be milked without
the bar; and when the mixer comes, will
put herself in position to be milked by
stepping close to the left side Of her stall
and place the right hind leg little back,
and she will stand always the same way.
Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

A common punishment was that OF
going in procession through the streets
of town or village in n dress covered
with images Of swords, rods and other
implements of corporeal punishment.
In Hesse, women who had beaten their
husbands we're made To- ride backward
on a donkey, holding his tail, on which
occasion the animal was led through the
streets by the husband. This custom ex-
isted in Darmstadt up to the middle of
the seventeenth century, and was 80 COM
mon that donkey was always kept ready
for the purpose in the neighboring viii
lagos. If the woman struck her husband
in such mt nner that he could not ward
off the blow, the donkey was led by the
man that had charge of him; If not, then
by the husband himself.


AT ST. Goar a miller was allowed
certain quantity of wood from the for
ests belonging to the town, in return for
which he was bound to supply donkey
to the municipality whenever required for
the chastisement of scolding wife. An
other very old custom was that of punish
ing henpecked husband by removing
the roof of the house, on the ground that
"a man who allows his wife to rule at
home does not deserve protection against
the weather." If two women fought in
public, they were each put in sort of
closed ry.box, which only left their
heads exposed, and then posted opposite
to each other in the market.place, where
they remained for an hour face to face,
but unable to use their hands or feet.


A common punishment for scolding
women was the shameful stone," which
was hung around their necks. This stone
was Usually in the shape of bottle. At
Hamburg, libelers and slanderers were
compelled to stand on block and strike
themselves three times on the mouth. as a
sign of repentance. This custom still
existed thirty or forty years ago. In
some towns the shameful stone" was in
the shape of loaf, whence the German
saying, "a heavy bit of bread" (ein
schwerer bissen bro0. At Lubec it was
in the shape of an oval dish, and in other
places in that Of a woman putting out her
tongue. Such stone was usually very
heavy; according to the law of Dortmund
and Hslberstadt Q84S) they were to
weigh hundred weight. Those who
were wealthy could purchase exemption
from this punishment with a bag full Of
hops tied with red ribbon.
Year: 1877

A YOUNG Chicago poet, who couldn't
pay his hotel bill, declared: "Life in
the free, far and mighty West is corrod-
ed with the sublimate of darkling social
gloom, glowering from sky of midnight
blackness, unrelieved by a ray of dancing
sunshine"
Year: 1877

HUMAN destiny is a nut, Of which life
is the shell and reputation the kernel.
Crack it gently, and you enjoy its whole
value entire and at once. But open 1t
roughly, and, ten to one, you break the
shell or bruise the kernel, or reduce the
whole into one useless compound.
Year: 1877

THEY who take self for their guide
ride in paths of partiality, on the horse
of adulation, to the goal of falsehood
but he who prefers the mandate of rea-
son rides in the way of probability, in the
course of prudence. His journey will
then be as pleasing as the object of it,
which is truth, shall be sure.
Year: 1877

The following were The receipts and shipments
OF the leading articles Of produce in this city
during the twenty-1ou hours ending at Z O'Clock
on Saturday morning, and for the correspondent:
day last year:
Year: 1877

FALL RIVER, August 1.-THE Man
ufacturer's Board Of Trade have in
definitely postponed the project otrun-
ming on short time. A large majority
are confident OF their ability to carry
clothes till the market improves.
Year: 1877

We have been handed the following as
the proceedings of meeting held last
evening, in the First ward:


A very large and enthusiastic meeting
OF the Democracy Of the First ward, was
held last evening at their headquarters.


There were fully 800 persons present.


Resolutions were adopted protesting
agalnstShe appointment of person from
the upper district to collect taxes in the
lower district. The meeting feeling that
the lower district was fully entitled to the
appointment Of man from their district.
Year: 1877

The FIRE DEPARTMENTAL meeting
of committee of one from each engine
company, was held last erening, al
Washington engine house, for the pur-
pose of adopting q set of rules for the
government of the department at fires. A
subcommittee was appointed to draw
up rules and decide upon a badge to be
worn by each fireman.


The committee will report to the COM
mittee of the whole, who will in turn re-
port to the convention that was ap-
pointed some time ago.


The convention will then report their
action to City Council. asking that an
ordinance be passed making it misde-
meanor for any one to appear upon the
meeting adjourned until next Thursday
to meet at the same place.
Year: 1877

JUDGE SrRoNe.-The Philadelphia
Times furnishes the following sketch
Of the career of Judge Strong of the
United States Supreme Court, who is
a member of the commission consti-
tuted by the electoral bill to count
the votes for President and Vice
President.


"He was chosen to the Thirtieth
and Thirty first Congress by the Dem
ocrats Of Berks county, and IN 1867
was elected to the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania by the same party; but
his decisions given there fol more
than ten years were slngularly free
from partisan bias. In 1862 he separ-
ated from his democratic brethren OF
the court and decided the national
conscription act constitutional. and
the same year he voted for Curtin for
Governor against Judge Woodward,
his associate On the bench. In 1866 he
separated from the republican Judge,
and joined the democratic judges
in deciding the dcserter disfranchis-
ing act of Congress unconstitutional
He made no public declaration of his
position in the presidential contest o.
1864 between Lincoln and Mcclellan,
but he was regarded as war demo-
crat with republican sympathies gen
orally, in 1858, having resigned from
the bench he quietly but avowedly
favored the election of Grant. That
Judge Strong will be wholly unrelia-
BILE as the oracle of any political par
ty on the commission is quite true.
and the same we believe to be true OF
every one on the bench"
Year: 1877

1t is fact, perhaps not generally
known, that there is firm doing bust
ness in San Francisco who purchase the
thousands of dogs slaughtered by the
poundmaster of that city, or that may
have been otherwise killed, for which
they pay forty cents each. The carcasses
are conveyed to their manufactory at
South Francisco, where the skins are
removed and sold to the tanneries, the
hair taken off and resold to plasterers,
the hide tanned, made into gloves, and
sold in the market. The denuded car
cass is then thrown into huge cal
dron and boiled until the bones are
easily separated from the flesh, when
they are removed and sold to the sugar
refneries, where they are ground to a
fine powder and used to clarity sugar.
The oil that rises to the surface of the
boiling mass is skinned off and manu-
factured into cod liver oil, and the re-
mainder is used for the purpose of fat
tening hogs,
Year: 1877

Mount Carmel Almost AnnihiIated by n


StOrm-Many Lives Lost and Much Prop


erty Destroyed.


A tornado which swept through por-
ton of Illinois, overturned houses in its
path, burying their inmates in the ruins,
and causing the death of a large number
of persons as well as the destruction of
an immense amount of property. The
scene is described as follows Two con-
verging lines of devastation prove that
the tornado partook largely of the char
acter of cyclone. The first wreck was
frame farmhouse, which was blown
out at the sides, letting the roof down
upon the foundation. Thence the wind
swept over q small strip of timber, and
was met by q counter-current of wind
from the west, which did no serious
damage, except to fences in its course.
These currents met on Fourth street
below Main street, Mount Carmel, with
a force which is described to have re-
sembled the crash of timber or the flap
ping of sails, and in the space of few
seconds the air was filled with the debris
of hundred dwellings,, public build
ings and business houses. Some of the
wreck was carried distance of mile.
The principal force of the cyclone was
spent on the line of Fourth street, run
ming northeast to the woods west of the
river, where the wind was again raised
from the earth. Half square above
Main street, ON Fourth street, the furious
eddying of the storm carried the Metho-
dist church steeple in the opposite direc-
ton, landing it 300 feet away in front of
a saloon. The bell was dropped in the
middle of street near by. A little boy
who was coming from school below Main
street was lifted above the houses and
landed unhurt at his house half mile
south. He said he passed over the
church steeple as it went the other way.
The fury of the storm was spent in the
business portion of the town. In some
cases buildings were only unroofed, but
the demolition of other houses was COM
plete. The Presbyterian church is razed
to the ground. The loss on property by
storm and fire was estimated at $500, 600
but interest therein was absorbed in con-
cern for the dead and missing.


1t being rainy day, many farmers
who could not work at home were in
town. The county court was in session
also, which brought many people to the
city. Men, women and children were
blown in many instances distance OF
four hundred feet, as if they were feath-
ers. The best part Of the town is de-
stroyed. Some seventy families were
houseless, and much distress was feared.
Year: 1877

A trio of ladies got on the special
Chicago express going West, and dis
covered when the train was in motion
that they were going in the wrong direc-
tion. Two of them rushed for the plat
form and jumped. The momentum of
the train threw them off their feet, and
they rolled over in the depot yard. The
third ran through the train to the plat
form of the rear car and then jumped.
But tickle fortune favored. A very fleshy
reporter happened to be standing there,
and seeing the predicament of the lady
opened his arms. She jumped. He
staggered under the force of the concus-
sion, but held on 1t was a good catch
and happy escape from injury, as the
train by this time had increased its speed
to a pretty good jog. No sequel. - Utica
Observer.
Year: 1877

abundant in June, and ought to receive
prompt and thorough attention.


Persons who have young pear or apple
trees affected with the bark-louse have
probably found most of their efforts to
get rid of the pest Intellectual. If they
will examine their trees about apple
blossom time very closely they will dis
cover the newly-hatched lice moving
about the bark appearing like minute
white specks. Now, ego for" them with
brush and strong soapsuds and make
finish of them. If left until they form
scale covering, it will be too late, for
then they cannot be dislodged. Farm
Journal
Year: 1877

Goodness is beauty in its best estate.


Your goodness must have some edge
to it, else it is none.


1t is'much better to have your gold in
the hand than in the heart.


How did the atheist get his idea of that
God whom he denies?


The love of glory can only create a
great hero the contempt of it creates
great man.


One might as we'll try to calculate
automatically the contingent forms of
the tinkling of bits of glass in kaleido-
scope as to look through the tube of the
future and foretell its pattern.


Fortune, like other females, prefers
lover to master, and submits with i'm
patience to control; but he that wooes
her with opportunity and importantly
will seldom court her in vain.


To be thrown upon ones own re-
ources is to be cast into the very lap of
fortune for our faculties then undergo
development and display an energy of
which they were previously unsuscepti-
BILE.


Though fraud in all other instances
be odious, yet in matters of war it is
laudable and glorious, and he who over
comes his enemies by stratagem is as
much to be praised as he who overcomes
hem by force.


A man is thirty years old before he has
settled thoughts of his fortune it is not
compl ted before fifty. He falls to
building in his old age and dies before
his house is in condition to be painted
and glazed.


The sea as well as the air is free and
common thing to all and particular
nation cannot pretend to have the right
to the exclusion of others without vio-
lating the rights of nature and public
usage. lr


Nothing can he more absurd than the
idea that I" looking guilty proves guilt.
An honest man charged with crime is
much more likely to blush at the accusa-
ton than the real offender, who is gene
rally prepared for the event, and has his
face "ready made" The very thought
of being suspected of anything criminal
will bring the blood to an innocent mans
cheek nine times out of ten.
Year: 1877

A neighborhood on North Hill was
disturbed all one night recently by
dreadful, awful noises coming from a
haunted house. and the appalled, family
in the house itself never slept wink.
but sat up with palid faces and beating
hearts, alternately reading the Bible and
calling loudly for the police, while the
perturbed spirit OF the place walled and
shrieked and moaned and howled like
the echoes of despair But when morn
ing broke the mystery was partially
cleared away by the discovery that the
cat had gone into the cistern to wash its
feet, and had neglected to take fire
escape along by which to get out.--Bur-
linQton HaDkeye.
Year: 1877

Astranger with weak back walked
into an Oil City drug store the other day
and said he wanted the strongest kind of
a mustard plaster. With fiendish grin
the clerk built up a terrible mixture and
passed it out. That night the inmates
of the hotel were startled from their
slumbers by loud cries in room fifty
seven. When the door was burst open
they found the stranger wrestling with
that mustard plaster in Gr@co-Roman
style. But the plaster had thrown him
twice, and was now humping him
against the wall preparatory to drawing
him through the transom. 1t took two
policemen to separate the two.
Year: 1877

If the story told by the dispatches con-
cerning the blowing up of the Turkish
monitor is true then that peculiarly of
naval warfare which superseded almost
every form of man-of-war" has been
not only superseded but rendered USE
less. 1t matters not how impregnable q
craft may be from fort or ocean broad
side if torpedo can be placed under her
in broad daylight and her fragments
scattered all over the surrounding space.
Substantially, this is what was done in
the case referred to. The monitor was
able to fire upon the approaching craft
which carried the engine of destruction !;
but was not able to check it's onward
movement. And when this fact became
apparent, the supremacy of the monitor
ceased. It's elevation skyward was
merely excess of proof. The torpedo
showed itself king the minute it demon
strated it's capacity to advance under fire.


The whole question, therefore, of naval
warfare is opened again, just as it has
been scores of times when the discovery
of new gun or projectile has necessi-
tated more powerful ship, or Uice UerS0.
Iue powers Will Heets vi IRON -claoS can
no longer proclaim themselves masters
of the seas, for the most insignificant
power with practicable torpedo or two
can demolish their whole reliance The
torpedo must be met with an engine
more destructive and when this is ac-
complished the battle ground will only
be shifted, for the new must in it's turn
be destroyed. There is hope, however,
that as invention progresses, the imple-
ments of war, both.by land and sea, will
become SO frightfully destructive as to
put an end to war altogether. If the
day ever should come, as it probably
will, when war means humiliation of the
unsuccessful party to the conflict,
nations will be less eager to engage in it
than they now are.
Year: 1877

The Lord watch between me and thee,


When we are absent one from another;
Though long miles away thou mayst be,


And hard fate each from the other
Forever divide, yet still must my prayer
Fer be the same-in hope or despair,
In days of soft peace, in suffering's breath,
In storm or in calm, in life or in death,
In right or in wrong, in good or in ill,
Ever the same, the same prayer still
The Lord watch between me and thee,


Thee, love, no other, 9''
Through might of the land, through power


of the sea,


Whereer thou mayst be,
While we are absent one from another.
Year: 1877

The pear slugs will visit your pear and
ounce trees this season, no doubt. On
small trees destroy them by pinching
with the fingers; on larger trees throw
road dust or dry ashes on them when the
dew is on the leaves. They will be
Year: 1877

WE flourish awhile Men take us by the
hand and are anxious abont the health of our
bodies and laugh at our jokes, and we really
think, like the fly on the wheel, that we have
something to do with the turning of it. The
sun does not stop for onr funeral, everything
goes on as usual. we are not missed in the
street, men laugh at the new jokes, and in
three days the great waves sweep over our
path, and wash out the last vestige of earthly
footprints. Such Is life.
Year: 1877

The Judgment of the judicial com
mittee in the Ridsdale appeal case was
announced in London, on May 12.
This is the decision which has been
anxiously awaited in che Anglican COM
munion. The court, after weeks of
argument and deliberation, now hold
% that the eucharistic yes ments in.
troduced by the RitualIsts are illegal !;
(2) that though the most natural inter-
probation of the rubrics is that the
minister should stand throughout at
the north end of the altar, yet the as
sumption of the eastward position is
not illegal in the absence of proof that
it amounts to a violation of the direc-
tion to the minister to break the bread
and take the cup into his hands before
the people-that is, so as to be seen by
them or by sufficient number of them
(3) that the use of wafer-bread is ille-
gal, though the charge of having used
it is not sufficiently established against
the present defendant; and a. that the
erection of a crucihx by Mr.. Ridsdale
was illegal, on the ground of the prob
ability of its being used superstitious-
ly, and not of any general objection to
the introduction of sculptured figures.
This decision is complete defeat for
the Ritualists. Will they remain in
the church when the law has been
authoritatively declared, and Lord
Penzance has full power to enforce it:
Mr. Tooth is evidently bent upon going
back to prison, for officiating at an
early communion in his church he wore
the very vestPeHts which the highest
ecclesiastical court had declared to be
illegal. The low churchmen will prob
ably insist upon the ngid enforcement
OF the law, and his arrest may precipi
tate a crisis in the history of the Eng
llsh Church which will ultimately re-
suit in its disestablishment.
Year: 1877

THERE are marked indications OF
bitter feeling against Tilden on account
of his very evident interference in the
speakership campaign. There is now
no doubt that the Tuden clique are
using their influence in favor of Ran
dali for Speaker. Rival candidates
have discovered this, and are indig-
nant, annoyed and disconnected by it.
Should Tilden attempt to actively
work for Randall the Democratic party
will find itself in curious position
upon the opening of Congress. The
Western Democrats never liked Sam
Tilden. They don't, as a class, like
Sam Randall any better. The hand of
GramercY Park is clearly seen in the
Speakershlp campaign. There are not
wanting men among Democrats who
say that it was the Tildcn management
which compasscd the disgrace of the
party in the last presidential cam
paign, and which consented to the sur
render in Congress last winter, and
that these same men shall not be al
lowed to organize the next House of
Representatives in their own interest.
We simply state the facts as given by
other newspapers, and have only to
say that Tilden is especially inimical
to Samuel Cox. The reason 1t Is need
less to assign.
Year: 1877

signed and in cases specified, was ap.


proved everywhere in Texas, it was


not because war, but because peace


was thus assured. We had borne dep


relations and outrages till these
became intolerable, and now when
robbers cannot escape with booty into
the coma tbre, the end of knavery has
come, and we have fixed assurances of
peace which can only become final
when the international road becomes an
irrefragable bond of union between the
two republics. If the government of
Mexico is so weak that it cannot con-
troll its own population on the Rio
Grande, what resources can it have for
making war On the United StatesG But
If it is strong enough to perform this
plain duty and yet willfully neglects
1t, We must bring Mexico to proper
sense of international obligations. The
vigorous policy of Mr.. Evarts requires
no apology; what does need apology is
the sentimental forbearance practised
on this subject since the civil war. No
duty of the Federal government is
clearer or more imperative than that of
protecting our citizens from foreign
aggression, and if Mexico will not take
care of her cwn bandits we must per-
form that task for her when they infest