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Year: 1874

The SCARLET FEvER.-Robert Chris
tie, of the Potrero, suggests remedy
for scarlet fever, which he AYERS has in
variably proved successful. 1t is very
simple, and lies within the reach of those
whose limited means preclude them from
employing the service of physician.
1t is this Take an onion and cut it in
halves, cut out portion of the centre,
and into the cavity put spoonful of
saffron put the pieces together, then
wrap them up in cloth and bake them
in an oven until the onion is cooked SO
that the juice will run freely; squeeze
out all the juice and give the patient a
teaspoonfull, at the same time rubbing
the chest and throat with goose grease
or rancid bacon, if there is any cough
or soreness in the throat. In a short
time the fever will break out all over the
body. All that is then necessary is to
keep the patient warm and protected
from draught, and the recovery is GER
tain. Mr.. Christie says he has been en-
ploying this remedy for many years, and
never knew it to fail when proper care
was taken of the patient after its appli-
cation. One family in which there were
FIVE children down with the disease at
one time recently used this simple reme-
dy upon his telling them of it, and ev-
cry one recovered in short time.-San
Francisco Chronicle
Year: 1874

We never had a coal stove around the
house until last Saturday. Have al
ways burned pine slabs and pieces of our
neighbor's fence. They burn we'll too,
but the fence got burned up, and the
neighbor said he wouldn't build a new
one, so we went down to Jones' and got
coal stove. 1t is called the Radiant
Home" and any man that says that we
didn't have radiant home at our house
for about four hours last Saturday night
is Republican and villain. You see
we didn't know anything about coal
stoves. We filled the Radiant Home
about half full of pine fence, and when
the stuff got well to going, we filled the
artesian well on top with coal. 1t sim
mered and sputtered about FIVE or ten
minutes, and all went out, and we put on
an overcoat and a pair of mittens, and
"went out " too, to supper. We remark
ed, in the course of the frugal meal, that
Jones was "fraud for recommending
such confounded refrigerator to a man
to get warm by. After supper we took
a piece of ice and dubbed our hands
warm, and went in where that stove was,
resolved to make her draw and burn, if
it took all the pine fences in the First
Ward. Our better half threw a quilt
over her and shiveringly remarked that
she never knew what real solid comfort
was, until she got coal stove. Stung
by the sarcasm in her remark, we turn
ed every dingus in the stove that was
movable, or looked like it had any
thing to do with draft, and pretty
soon the Radiant Home began to heave
up and heat. 1t was not long before
she sputtered like the new Silsby steamer
Talk about your heat In ten minutes
that room was as much more than a
Turkish bath as Hades is hotter than
Silverman's ice-house. We opened the
doors, the snow commenced to melt up
as far up Vine street as Hanscomb's
house, and people all around the neigh
borhood put on linen clothes. And we
couldn't stop the confounded thing. We
forgot what Jones said about the hampers
and she just kept billing. The only
thing we could do was to go to bed, and
leave the thing to burn up the house if
it wanted to. We stood off with pole
and turned the damper every way, and
at evrey turn she just sent out heat enough
to roast an OK. We went to bed, sup
posing the coal would eventually burn
out, but about II o'clock the whole fam
lily had to get up and sit on the fence.
Finally man came along who was
brought up among coal stoves, and he
pct wet blanket over him and crept
up to the stove and turned the proper
dingus, and she cooled off, and since that
time has been as comfortable as possible.
La Crosse Democrat.
Year: 1874

FUTURE HOUSEWIVES. = We some
times catch ourselves wondering how
many of the young ladies whom we meet
with are to perform the part of house
wives when the young men who now eye
them SO admiringly have persuaded
them to become their brides. We listen
to those young ladies of whom we speak,
and hear them not only acknowledging
but boasting of their ignorance of all
household duties, as if nothing would so
lower them in the es-eem of their friends
as the confession of their ability to bake
bread, make pies, or cook a piece of
meat, or disposition to engage in any
useful employment. Speaking from our
own youthful recollection, we are free to
say that taper fingers aud lily-white
hands are very pretty to look at with a
Young mans eyes. But we have lived
long enough to learn that life is full of
rugged experiences, and that the most
loving, romantic, and delicate people
must live on cooked or otherwise pre-
pared food, and in homes kept clean and
tidy by industrious hands. And for all
the practical purposes of married life, ii
is generally found that for husband tc
sit and gaze at wife's taper fingers and
lily hands, or for wife to sit and bs
looked at and admired, does not make
the pot boil, or put the smallest piece O.
food therein.
Year: 1874

HARMONY IN THE MARRIED STATE
is the first object to be aimed at. Moth
ing can preserve affection uninterrupted
but firm resolution never to differ in
will, and determination in each to con-
slider the love Of the other as of more
value than any other object whatever on
which wish has been fixed. How
light, in fact is the sacrifice of any other
wish weighed against the affections of
one with whom we are to pass our life
And though opposition in single in
stance will hardly of itself produce
alienation, yet every one has his pouch
into which all these oppositions are put
and while that is filling the alienation is
insensibly going on, and when filled is
complete. 1t would puzzle either to tell
why; because no difference has been
marked enough to produce serious eff
feet by itself. But he finds his affection
wearied out by constant stream of
checks and obstacles. Other sources of
discomfort, very common indeed, are the
cross-purposes of husband and wife, in
common conversation disposition to
criticise and question whatever the other
says-a desire always to demonstrate
and make him feel himself wrong, es


pecially in sympathy. Nothing is SO
goading. Much better therefore, if our
companion views thing in different
light from what we do, to leave him in
quiet possession of his view. What is
the use of rectifying him if the thing be
unimportant? And if important let it
pass for the present, and wait softer
moment and more conciliatory occasion
of revising the subject together. 1t is
wonderful how many persons are rem
dered unhappy by inattention to the
rules of prudence Thomas Jefferson.
Year: 1874


When the billows round are dashing.
And the sadness shrouds thy soul,
Give to God thy heart-petition,
He will back the pillows roll.
Through the waters dark. divided,
Bright path shall beam for thee.
And by faith the blissful future,
In the vision thou shalt SEQ.
Harbor not one slight misgiying.
For the light of faith is true;
Near the sand, and press footprint.
1t will lead thee safely through.
Though the billows rise as mountains
And the shore is shadow-dim,
Still remember, God is mighty,
All is possible with him,
Should the foamy spray dash o'er thee
And arise the dark despair,
Then the Fathers love will shield thee.
With his holy, angel care.
Dost remember, in the garden,
When our Saviour strove with grief.
How the angels came unto him
With the balm Of sweet relief?
How they gave him streAgth to finish
Out the Fathers wOndrous plan.
Strength to walk through deepest anguish
That might rise the soul Of man?
Just the same bright angels hover
Round the breathing ones Of now;
Just the same God gives the healing,
Ii before His throne we bow.
Year: 1874

WE fully indorse what is said by our
correspondent this morning in relation
to the want of good roads in Ohio coup-
ty and will make this matter the topic
OF editorial comment at an early day.
Year: 1874

The Boston Advertiser is Of the opinion
that the anti-nflationists have hard fight
on their hands. 1t says;


This is a hard fight for the right. 1t
does not end with one defeat or with one
victory. The country has been brought
face to face with a great danger. We
cannot now cease our eXertions until the
possibility of imitation has been destroyed ;
in other words. until our currency has
been made redeemable in gold Those
who think it is short war are mistaken.
1t will require as much frmness and nerve
as it took to put down the rebellion. 1t is
unfortunate that the beginning Of the con-
test has been delayed so long, and now
that it has begun let us arm ourselves at
all points, and fight vigorously and with
out ceasing''
Year: 1874

A correspondent OF the Boston Courier
relates story Illustrative OF the old adagc,
as follows: mot many weeks ago a
wealthy and middle-aged bachelor of San
Francisco espoused one OF the tarest
daughters of that city. and the wedding
was celebrated in one Of the most fashion,
able churches, and in the presence OF an
aSscmblagc Of the creme de Ia creme of
san Francisco society. The bridegroom
was a FortV-nMer, and he had once been
anything but a sober and industrious citi-
zen. There had even been rlnnorI to the
effect that when he made the overland
journey he left behind in the States 4
wife and two children and these rumors
We're aWllMardly revived when his recent
marriage was first announced But moth
ing came of the gossip The Eorty-niner
was now undcniablv rich and respectable
and people were generally disposed 10
pass over his anteccdents without subject
mo them to Il scrutiny that might prove
disagreeable And 50 the wedding day
arrived When the Forty and his
bride turned from their places in front of
the altar, after the clergyman had pro
nounced them man and Wife, the specta.
tors We're aslonished to see a tall dismal
looking, and sable-hlbited man rise from
aplace in one of the front prws approach
the bridegroom, and gently tap him on
the shoulder The effect OF this proceed
ing on the Forty-niner was rather singu-
lar, for his countenance assumed CHASTITY
expression and he quickly resigned his
newly made wife to her friends, and turn
ed anXiously to the stranger. who simply
remarked i wish to talk with you mo-
ment privately. SIR The Forty-niner
struggled hard To conceal his emotion,
and finally said Il assure you. sir, that


-that-what in thunder did YOU come at
such time as this for?' A moment will
suffice, replied the funeral-looking gentle
man firmly; please step into this pew.
The Forty-niner did so, while the assem-
bed company buised itself in winkng
and whispering, and looking alternately
at the taintng bride and the agonzed
bridegroom When q man gets married,
sir said the dismal gentleman, it is
necessary for him to look with prudence
upon the future, and he cannot begin too
soon. Now, sir, a lot in the Oakdale Gene
tery, which association | repre- The
sentence was never finished. There was
a chorus Of female shricks, and a general
rush of gentlemen, as the Forty-niner was
suddenly observed to seize his interviewer
by the collar and kick him into the aisle
The enterprising cemetery agent was
quickly disposed OF. the trembling bride
regained her color and composnre, and
thereafter All went merry rs a marriage
bell
Year: 1874

TE>riNe SEEDS Now that spring and
1he planting season are approaching, il is
often important to test the vitality Of seeds
before sowing them The following is
given as simple and easy method de.
sclibed Iill box. pan, or flower pot
partly with rich mellow earth. make fhe
upper surface perfectly smooth, and on
this surface draw straight cross lines. and
drop a seed at each intersection. so that
they may be easily counted Then take a
hoop or frame, and make q bottom to it,
with cloth stretched across 50 as to re-
semble a sieve. Place this upon the seed,
and fill it with enough fine mould to form
2 sufficient covering for the seed, which
should be four or five times the diameter
Of the seed for the depth. Keep the soil
sufficiently moist and in warm place
The sieve can be lifted easily and the seeds
examined without disturbing them. In
this way corn, wheat, clover seed, tu.nlp
seed, and many other kinds can be easily
tested, which may be of considerable i'm
portance where the age or freshness of the
seed IS not certainly known.
Year: 1874

In these estimates, the flesh forming
value is in proportion to the nitrogenons
elements contained in the food The tat
formers consist of starch oil and fat, and
As oil and ready formed fat is estimated
double the value Of starch in feeding the
total feeding values in different articles
vary in somewhat different ratios to those
of the fat forming elements.
Year: 1874

seneca says that the great sources of
anxiety in lite are three: the fear of want.
the fear OF disease, and the fear of oppres-
sion by the powerful He says that the
last of these three is the greatest. Seneca
is about right.
Year: 1874

Hot WATER FOR FOUNDER. had a
horse which was very badly foundered
with grain lie could not stand for sever
al days, and was swung with q tackle. |
thought his case hopeless, and considered
him not worth Il dollar, bat concluded to
do what could for his relief In the first
place physicked him, then | took tight
strong box, got his feet into it, and poured
boiling hot water into il as high as the
hair on MS feet, and in ten or fifteen min
utes he was able to stand on his fore legs
without the assistance Of the tackle.
kept up this treatment for thirty-six hours.
when he was able to 60 about and help
himself, In a few days | had his shoes
put ON, aud in less than Il fortnight more
he was able to work rs we'll rs ever, Cor
y. Y Tribune


Says a poultry raiser writing to the
Prairie Farmer. Our common tarmyard
fowl with good care, will lay one hundred
and forty eggs each year, and give them
each time to rear q brood Of chickens. A
Black Spanish will lay two hundred eggs
in a year this breed does not set till three
years old. Hamburgs Golden Penciled
will lay from two hundred to two hundred
and forty eggs each year, but does not set
TIL three years old, and sometimes not
even then. Bramah fowls will lay one
hundred and forty eggs and bring up two
broods of chickens each year. The aver
age cost of keeping fowls, of all kinds.
with coln at one dollar per bushel and
small grain in that proportion, will not be
far from one dollar and twenty cents each,
per year.


A. S Fuller thinks the remedy frequent
ly recommended, of heaping lime and
ashes about the roots of trees to exclude
the borer owes its efficacy, If it possesses
any, to the necessary removal Of the grass
and weeds which grow about the tree and
afford shelter to the insects when de-
posting their eggs, as nncultivated or
Weedy trees, are always most liable to be
attacked. He adheres to the old remedy
OF digging out the insects with the point
OF knife when newly hatched, or punch
ing them in the holes, when of longer
duration; and the preventive of incasing
Ihe loot OF the tree in tarred OF sheathing
paper according to the modes we have
occasionally described.
Year: 1874

We call the attention of our read
ers to the article which we copy in
another column, from the Toledo,
Blade, in regard to a new line of
railroad, under the above name.
which, it is said, is soon to be built
by company of English capitalists.
We have heard nothing of such an
enterprise being on foot until within
the past few weeks, and cannot say
whether the statements made con-
cerning it are reliable or not, but
they certainly look plausible, and we
hope they will prove to be well found
ed. Should the proposed road be
built, it will pass down the Scioto
Valley and intersect the line of the
Southern Ohio Railroad at or near
Piketon, about 40 miles east of Hills
boro, and all we will have to do to
get connection with the road will
be to finish the Southern Ohio from
Hillsboro to that point Our citi-
zens will thus see that they have a
Observation-Disclosures in the projected
road, and no doubt they will await
further developments with some anx-
iety. We shall not fail to report any
new facts we may learn in connection
with the matter.
Year: 1874

DR.. William Henry Harrison


Dunn.


This is the name of Hillsboro
gentleman,


"a youth to fortune, and to fame unknown"
who aspires to Congressional honors
upon the sole grounds that he is a
good Democrat and has been q mar
tyr to the whisky cause. The whisky
INTEREST," is very dear to the heart of
the Democracy, and we would not
regard it as at all inconsistent for
them to shelve Mr.. Neal and shove
Mr.. Dunn to the front. Mr.. Dunn is
doubtless a man they can rely upon.
He can be depended upon to do ali
in his power to reduce the tax upon
whisky, and will not be likely to make
himself ridiculous by attempting a
speech upon any of the issues of the
hour. He will therefore be q more
proper representative of his constitu-
ency than will Mr.. Neal, and it may
be that during his swing around the
circle he has made sufficient friends
among the rabble to secure his nom
ination. DR.. Dunn would doubtless
be valuable acquisition to Congress
sional society. Being an apothecary,
and used to retailing liquor, he could
fix up their little drinks at their So
cial gatherings without putting them
to additional expense; besides he
could make their purchases for them,
as having been dealer in the article
he is doubtless a good Judge. In
return for this, they could tell him
how to vote, and if necessary, or if
he insisted upon it, they would
probably write him little speech,
and instruct him how to deliver it.
Before the crusade, the Doctor
would not have stood a ghost of a
chance for the nomination, not be-
cause he was not as deserving as he
is now, nor because he was any more
unable to perform the duties required
of him, but then his virtues weren' t
known; even Stafford only knew of
him as the proprietor of place
where he could get something to take
when called to Hillsboro. In the
past four months, however, he has
become famous; his name and repu-
tation have been taken up by the
Hebrew of the wire and spread from
Maine to Texas, and who knows but
that like our own worthy citizen he
is already in receipt of a letter from
Rear Admiral Dahlgren's widow,
lauding him to the skies for the no
bic AMI independent stand he has
tiken? For our part we would like
to see DR.. Dunn receive the nomina-
ton. We admire consistency, and
we do not see how the Democratic
party can pursue any other course
and maintain its well known reputa-
ton for consistency. We know just
where Mr.. Dunn stands, and how to
rate him, but well known temper
ance man like Mr.. Neal upon q whis-
ky platform is an anomaly, and we
scarcely know how to take him.
There is only one thing that would
worry us ifDunn should be nominal
ed. He might be elected, and then
what is Judge Stafford to do for a
client? For this reason if for no
other, should the Doctor be nomin-
ated, we shall work for his defeat,
for although we recognize fully the
great assistance he would be to
Congressional tea parties, yet we
cannot bear to see Stafford thus i'm.
poverished.
Year: 1874

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Year: 1874

The report of the very brief inquiry made at
the Water Department, yesterday, may be read
by each for himself. 1t appears, however, that
Price and Phillips paid no rent for over two
years, except one quarter that different lots of
old material have been Sold without the trans
action appearing on the books and that in the
case of Councilman Foulk his water rent was not
collected for over two years.
Year: 1874

1t is now stated that the duel between the Gu
ban General Rosado and Senior De Conto, of the
Spanish paper of New York, took place yesterday
morning, resulting in the fatal wounding of De
Conto.
Year: 1874

Some orchardists pick directly iuto bar
rels and head up in the field, and pile the
barrels on their sides in some shady place.
Others pile them up on the north side ofa
building, where they remain till freezing
weather. Others carry to the cellar and
leave them unheaded few weeks and
then head up tight and keep TIL wanted
for use or for sale. Others keep on shelves
where they may be looked over and the
inferior and decaying ones used first. The
objection to this method Is that the fruit
dries and withers too much. If stored in
tight barrels Immediately after picking.
the apples are quite liable to injury from
sweating. Our own practice Is to carry
the apples in baskets from the orchard to
the cellar and store in piles about two
feet deep. A few boards, covered with
mats or straw, are laid on the ground to
keep the fruit clean. The cellar windows
are kept open as late in the season as, the
fruit is safe from freezing. They are not
handled over or disturbed till wanted for
use or for market. If one has no good
cellar for keeping apples, it may be bet
ter to sell at the orchard than to run the
risk of losses by storing, although the
price win be- pretty sure to advance con-
siderably after the first of February. When
picking, do not clasp around two or three
large apples at once and pull them from
the tree. In this way, each apple is apt
to be dented by the pressure, and decay
soon follows. Take off one at time and
place carefully in small hand-basket,
from which they may be poured carefully
into larger baskets. Eggs may be poured
from one basket to another without break
ing. if they are not allowed to drop. A
little observation and experience will
teach any one about how much apples
may be moved without injury. But rec
ollect that bruise, however slight, is al
ways an injury England Farmer.
Year: 1874




Last night the local political organizations had
their hands full or WORK. In the contested dis
tricts, especially in the Nineteenth, where there
Is little dlficulty between the regular democratic
nominee and an irregular candidate, the chances
were declared to be IN favor OF the irregular.
"Stralght Tammany or no rations ~ IA vote for
Deerlng IS vote for Morpanr' are among the
election cries in the district.


The city last night was not full of local demon.
strations as it under similar circumstances usually
Is. The prevailing impression at the democratic
headquarters that the city would be carried for
Tilden by 5000 majority and that Hayes would be
elected Register by 5000 TO 10000 majority. The
difficulties among the democrats in the Sixteenth
and Eighteenth districts were settled last night
as twas generally expected they would be- but this
fact appears to have made the "regulars" all the
more determined to leave no stone unturned in
order to beat their opponents. The election OF
Wickham IS now conceded upon all sides, and the
republican leaders last night seemed to
have given mp all hope OF Wales success.
however, they said they would make good fight
anyhow, and the Republican Executive Commit
tee gave it out that the rumor that they were
parties to any arrangement looking toward the
selling OF the Legislature at the expense OF the
election OF the republican candidate for Governor
was untrue.


There was not so much enthusiasm on cit her
side as might have been expected on the


EVE OF THE ELECTION.


There were no bands OF music. In fact, there
were no especial demonstrations anywhere.
The general opinion seemed to be that
the democrats were sure to win, and there
was nothing more to be said about 1t. twas an
nounced that those who opposed the regular
democratic nominees woud be ta0ooed In the
future operations Of the organization This will
have the effect, 1t is said, of making some OF the
boilers return to the fold to-day.


In all the districts the workers were as busy as
bees, and although the excitement ran high in
the Sixteenth and one or two other Of the dis
trlcts where the democratic '.reDelsn have been
making strong demonstrations all along the line
for weeks past there was no disorder or fighting
OF a serious character, and the indications all
pointed to quiet and orderly election to-day.