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Year: 1877

We have been informed by one Of our
subscribers of terrible conflict between
a huge rattlesnake and hog, which took
place last Saturday, about two miles in
the country, on the road leading south
of town The battle ragged for nearly an
hour before either showed signs of surren-
dering, but at last the snake made a
gallant charge on his enemy's flank, and
forced him to retreat. The snake had
lost considerably in the last attack, and
when our Informant dashed upon him,
he was completely overcome. The snake
measured seven feet in length, and had
thirteen rattles and button.-Lake City
ReDOrter.
Year: 1877

There is no need of either selling or
using rancid butter, owing to the fact
that it may be easily restored to as good.
and perhaps better condition than that
which characterized it when entirely
fresh. No matter how strong. proper
management in the plan we are now
going to set forth will make it all right
every time:


Placein a barrel three pounds of fresh.
unslacked lime, and pour over it twenty
gallons of pure cold water Let it re-
main one day, stirring occasionally then
let it stand ten or twelve hours, without
stirring, to give it a chance to settle.
At the end of this time pour or draw off
the clear liquid, and strain through three
thicknesses of fine domestic or muslin.
Place into clean barrel, and it is ready
for the rancid butter.


Cut the butter into thin slices-as
thin as you can cut it conveniently-and
place 1t directly in the lime water. Put
In as much as the water will cover. then
F-o SfOA - d Oicdhs HOdlin5 liu, ana
weight down sufficiently to prevent any
butter from being exposed to the air.
Keep it in this condition about forty
eight hours, stirring three times a day
with a clean stick


At the end of this time the butter will
have entirely lost its rancid condition,
the lime having completely neutralized
the acid. This solution should now be
drawn from the barrel, and its place sup
piled with pure cold water, TO stand un-
disturbed for six hours. Next take out
the butter, let drain an hour or so, then
rework and resalt exactly after the man
ner OF managing new butter.


This process will leave the butter Juite
white, and therefore, if for the market.
you will need to color it, which you can
do with a preparation of annatto.. now
sold for the purpose in most drug stores.


If you desire to convert the butter re-
stored as above into first-class article,
fully up to the best Goshen, YOU will
take say fifty pounds Of it, which YOU
will place IN revolving churn with six
gallons of new milk, and pint of the
juice pressed from carrots. No sther
Year: 1877




Don't let the pressure of farm work
tempt you to neglect the garden. A
man who works hard should be well fed
with the best vegetables and fruits the
earth affords. The feeders of the earth
should patronize their own art, and
spread a good table, on the same princi-
pie that a tailor wears good cloth cut
and made in the best style-it is his best
investment. A farmer who raises. good
vegetables and Snows their value by use,
will soon carry them to market and thus
lead others to try them. If he culti-
Yates squashes, cabbage, tomatoes and
eggplant he will not be long in finding
a market for them. Men who labor
want variety of food, and the farmers
garden should abound with everything
good, from the asparagus bed, due the
first of May, to the roots that are har-
vested with the frosts OF autumn. The
moral Influence of a garden upon the
household is most happy we have rarely
met with vicious child whose early
years were familiar with his fathers
vegetable beds and his mothers flower
borders. The garden comes next after
the church and the school-house, and it
is a worthy co-operator with these in
stitutions. 1t beauties home wonder
fully, and kindles emotions that never
die out of the heart There IS time yet
to put in seed and provide for the raw
material for numerous tempting dishes
which every good housewife knows how
to prepare-from barley, celery, beans,
cucumbers and corn. Improve the seed
time and rejoice in the harvest.>--.J ".
Cgingan, i,l Ohio Fdrzaer
Year: 1877

4 young man from the north under
took to take little mustang ride about
the suburbs yesterday afternoon, for his
amusement, so he said. He had on a
large pair of Mexican spurs, and as soon
as he got in the saddle he stuck them
into the sides of the animal, which i'm
riediately made about one hundred Yards,
sometimes with its head stuck dow. be-
tween its forelegs and sometimes with its
tail up in the air, as if it was trying to
walk on its fore paws; in fact, it was a
kind of .faur pas all around, the Young
man who was taking ride for his pleas
ure contributing his share. He saw a
great deal of the country in a very few
moments; then he struck the ground as
if he had through ticket to China.


He gathered himself up, and limping
to chair. holding on to the lower ex-
tension OF his spinal column, seemed to
be out of sorts.


did you get hurt" was the anxious
inquiry.


/" Not darned bit," was the reply
gratisg his teeth and fondliug the af,
fiicted part; " but somebody might have
got hurt if I hadn't dismounted when |
did but would not have ridden that
pony in the first place if / hadn't been
an experienced horseman. San in
tonio Herald.
Year: 1877

An exchange says: A manufacturer
at Wheeling, West Va, is reported to be
making a good quality of nails from old


rails. Samples were some few days since
shown a. the office of the Wheeling In
telligencer, part of which were made out
of rails, pure and simple, and part out
of three parts rails and one part muck.
They are pronounced good and are
smooth and tough and drive well. This
process of making nails, we learn, avoids
the boiling of iron. The rails are cut
and piled for the heating furnaces like
so much muck bar. and by the use of a
ffux in the heating pre- cess are welded
and made as malleable, ductile and close
tectured in the sheet rolls as so much
piled muck Nail plate is thus made
So % per ton cheaper than out of pig
iron which has first been made into muck
bar. Tnis saving, says the Intelligencer,
is OF a big profit, and will, if successful,
revolutionizs the old method. No mill
can afford to puddle iron when by using
this fux old rails or pig iron can be con-
Year: 1877

A number of gentlemen who happened
about the Ohio aud Mississippi railroad
Office yesterday forenoon witnessed very
singular event Their attention was
attracted by the mournfuI yell of a dog,
coming from high up in the air. Glanc-
ing in the direction OF the sound, they
beheld dog upon the verge of the
National Hotel roof, six stories above.
A moment later and the form of the
brute appeared in mid-air, it having
sprung from the roof The unfortunate
creature struck the earth with a sicken-
ing thud, and was, of course, instantly
killed. How it happened on the roof is
q rnrsterv
Year: 1877

A decision OF great Importance to pub
licans was given in the Queens Bench
division on Thursday. A publican was
charged before the stipendiary magis-
trate at Stafford in December last with
having been found drunk on his own
licensed premises. The charge was
brought under the twelfth section of the
licensing act of 1872, which states that
every person found drunk on licerse1
premises is liable to a penalty of ten
shillings The publican, whose wife had
called in policeman at half. past II at
night, after the premises had been closed
for half an hour, was convicted, and ap-
pealed with success against the convic-
ton, which was ouashed by the judges
on the following grounds:


Whatever evil example the publican
was setting was to his own wife and
family. If the conviction was right
publican could be fined for being drunk
in his own bed, an offence, if it can be so
called, which many other persons not
publicans commit with impunity. A
publican who gets drunk at home after
closing hours is not guilty of any offence
against public order, but simply commits
a breach of domestic Propriety and de-
corum. The licensing act was not in
tended to affect the private life of man
who keeps a public house, but the
drunken public life" Of man. 1t
may be good for publican's health to
keep sober, but the act does not deal
with the morality of publican. When
his house is closed it becomes private
house. The legislature did not intend to
fine a man for being drunk sjnlcliciter.
Drunkenness per Sc is not an offence, but
only when it is an offence against public
order. The decision of the magistrate
was, therefore, the judges held, errone
ous.-PaH Nall Gazette.
Year: 1877

than revolving churn will answer, for
the harshness OF the butter will prevent
the motion of dasher. Start the churn
briskly, and keep it going for half an
hour, after which take out and handle
the same as new butter. No other color
ing viii be needed-the carrot iuice will
have impaired to it rich yellow color.
1t will have also added to its favor,
making the flavor resemble that Of new
butter in every PARTICULAR The Journal
of PROGRESS.
Year: 1877

Few people know that there are hardly
twenty genuine Newfoundland dogs in the
United States. The name and breed are
50 popular and familiar that to all but
an extremely small minority the assertion
will appear absurd. Nevertheless it is
strictly correct. The thoroughbred
Newfoundland dog has been gradually
losing his identity through miscegena-
ton. The secret of his fast approaching
extinction not being more easily OBJ
served, lies in the fact that after mixture
of breed between Newfoundland and
any other species, more OF the form and
characteristics of the latter descend to
the offspring than occurs in any ether
instance of interbreeding among dogs.
On this account animals that have hardly
two thirds of the genuine breed in them,
and which are really fine specimens, are
frequently boasted of as splendid New
foundland dogs. If he be still living
an old man known as "Batty" Sullivan
in the island from which the deg derives
its name IS the last surviving preserver
of the unmixed breed of newfoundland
dogs. Several years ago the writer last
saw him, and then the old man was
master of the last genuine specimen OF
the noble dogs. Old 3" Batty had then
about fifteen full grown pets, looking
as big as Shetland ponies, perfectly web
footed, with massive paws over three
inches in diameter, and heavy, glossy
coal-black curls all over. Very few men
have such frank and honest faces as those
splendid brutes possessed. Hydrophobia
is unknown among the pure breed
g Batty" made a living by selling his
dogs at high price almost exclusively
to Spanish and Portuguese sea captains
He strangely nuEtured the prejudice O
never selling male and femals to one
Year: 1877

The successful swindIer is usually q
man Of good appearances and finished
manners; his chief victims are hotel pro-
prietors and boarding-house keepers,
their occupation rendering them pecu-
liarly liable to imposition. Not long
since man in New York, when finally
caught in the act, openly boasted that
for over two years he had lived at the
finest uptown boarding houses and not
paid one cent during that time for board !;
he was gentlemanly in appearance, we'll
dressed, in possession of fine conversa-
tional powers, and very popular among
the ladies. His plan was to call at a
tirst-class boarding. house, engage apart
ments, andrbefore partaking of the first
meal inform the landlady that che could
not get his baggage over the ferry that
morning." "had not arrived at the ex-
press Office yet" "was delayed on the
road by an accident" etc., always franz
ing some plausible excuse so as to gain
foothold, and in the interim making
himself agreeable to all the ladies in the
house, particularly the landlady and her
daughters, if perchance she had any, be-
ing a good pianist, good reader, a
charming dancer, and with such "win-
ming ways" that before she was hardly
aware of the fact, he owed her a months
board, when he quietly stepped out, never
to return. Swindlers of meaner class
are those who hang around large hotels
for the chance of securing meal When
they think no is looking, they slip
into the dining-room. Some of them
can tell to nicely at just what hour
and minute they stand better chance +;
as matter of course where two or three
hundred people are sitting down to a
meal, it is hard matter to discern one
person who has not registered. Still
another class are those who on stopping
at hotel have fair show of baggage,
but which in reality is worthless; this
class has many devices, and generally
succeeds in victimizing the landlord,
even if he be not over .credul0us. In
fact, for ways that are dark, the hotel
swindler is gerry peculiar.
Year: 1877

She hearkens for his step


In the hush OF her lonely room,
Yet starts with dread at each echoing tread
That sounds from the outer gloom
As she rocks the cradle near


With a tremulous hand and Sow
"Ab, Heaven she sighs; "but the night Il


drear


With the thoughts of long ago.
She thinks OF the rosy time,


In the not so long agone,
When she hearkened for the same swift treaC
With heart like summer dawn
How it spurned the pebble and shell
How 1t gamboled as it drew near!
How her heart stood still as Its music fell
On her bowed and listening ear!
Stood still, but not as now - "'
With doubt and misgiving-H
There 1t comes at last, now slow, now fast,
And stumbling along the dark, .
She seizes the sleeping child, ...,........,.
And gathers it to her breast
No; he's only merry, not bad and wild,
And his greetings tipsy jest,
But oh! when her tear-wet cheek


On its pillow at last is laid,
How crumble and fall each shining wall
OF the castles in air she made!
Who will blame II she sometimes pray
That her heart shall catch the sound
OF an echoing step beyond the day,
Where all is repose profound?
Year: 1877

The poverty of the Irish is NOT exag-
gerated, nor their good humor, nor their
whimsical adsurdity, nor their courage.
There is perpetual kindness in the Irish
cabin-butter.milk, potatoes-a stool is
offered, or stone is rolled that your hon
or Tay sit down, and be out Of the smoke,
and those who beg everywhere else seem
desirous to exercise free hospitality in
their own houses. Their natural dispo-
sition is turned to gaiety and happiness;
while Scotsman is thinking about the
term-day, or, if easy on that subject,
about hell in the next Worthwhile an
EngliShman is making little hell in the
present, because his muffin Is not well
tolsted-Pat'S mind is always turned to
fun and ridicule. They are terribly ex-
citable, to be sure, and will murder you
on slight suspicion, and find out next day
that it was all Il mistake, and that it WAS
not yourself they meant to kill at all, at
all.-Waiter Scott.
Year: 1877

USELESS PEoPLE.-We see no special
occasion for being very obsequious to-
ward that race of beings, whether male or
female, young or old, in high life or low
life, whose earthly history is represented
by the title of this article. They are
simply idlers and wasters, so far as any


practical utility is concerned. Mani
festly they have come to the wrong
world; and The sooner they leave it the
sooner society will be relieved of bur-
densome and expensive nuisance. Eating
and drinking and sleeping constitute
their chief employment. With their
provender made sure, they are quite sat
isfed. Habits of industry they have not
and, moreover, it is no part of their plan
to do anything that is of practical value
for either world. Fortunately for them
selves, breathing is spontaneous and ami
NAL nutrition goes forward by self-im-
pelling law. Were the fact otherwise,
they would die for the want Of breath, OF
speedily become CHASTITY skeletons. Such
are your useless, good-for. Nothing people


Their significance in really adding any,
thing valuable to the world is less than
that Of an oyster,-Independent.
Year: 1877

A SINGULAR PHENOMENoN.--Th Pan
anna Star and Herald reports curious
phenomenon as having occurred at Aspin-
wall during the past month, and calls
upon the scientific for an explanation.
The beach, says that journal, is of Coral
formation, and extends from the light
house eastward along the northern shore
of Manzanila Island for mile or more,
and is open to the Caribbean. Upon the
night in question, or rather on the porn
ing following, this whole distance was
covered with deposit of deep vivid
indigo blue-something resembling a
broad ribbon stretched along the limits
of high tide, which there amounts to only
about eighteen inches.


Beholders we're startled by this very
peculiar appearance, and it was at first
thought that perhaps Old Neptune and
the Tagus indigo business might have
had something to do with it; nor was Gu
riosity alayed in the slightest when a
closer examination revealed the icbthyo-
logical fact that this blue deposit con-
sisted of millions of a fat, shapeess sort
of jelly-fsh, smaller than the hand,
rounded in contour, with slightly raised
ridge running what would seem to be
fore and aft over the back. Everybody
looked and wondered, but the wisest--
aud there are some perfect Solomo ons in
that city--could not make out what they
we're, or what such singular and sudden
phenomenon meant. The next day ali
the bright color had faded out, and the
gelatinous deposit, although giving out a
strong, unpleasant odor, dried up and
soon disappeared. ..
Year: 1877

SILVER SAFEIN A RIOT Among the
cars which were destroyed by the fire
during the prevalence of the riot were ten
or twelve which contained freight shipped
by the Pennsylvania lead company, of
Mansfield. 1t was generally supposed
that all Of the cars contained pigs of lead
and amid the surfeit Of other more vaua-
BILE and more easily transported goods, no
one thought of loading himself with this
heavy metal, On Tuesday, after the fire
il was discovered that three of the cars
contained pure silver, which had been
melted at the Mansfield establishment,
and which was on its way to the Phila-
delpha mint. The silver was in forms
of pigs of lead, and like the lead it had
melted and run down between the ties
and in the cutters. or course there was
no effort on the part of the company to
dissipate the impression that the cars con-
tanned nothing but lead, and as they look
| ed much alike, there were no attempts to
steal any of the more precious substance
On Tuesday the proprietors visited the
ruins and removed the metal. The val
lie Of the silver that was in the cars is not
definitely known, but the amount was
several thousand dollars. Ifttsburg TEL
e9raph.
Year: 1877

The value Of photography in times of
war was strikingly exemplifed during
the siege of Paris, by the introduction of
the Photographic post; but the present
war has demonstrated curious extestion
of its powers as means of offense. Dur
ing the bombardment of Rustchuk, a
band Of Bashi- Bazouks took advantage
of the absence of q German photograph
or, named Bauer, to break into his studio.
The owner had, however, already placed
his valuables in security, so that his visi-
itors found nothing but number Of old
plates. The result of their visit may,
therefore, be said to have been literally
negative. At last, in some adjacent cup
board, they spied what they took to be a
bottle full of raki. Pouncing upon their
booty, and fighting between themselves
for its possession, three of them shared its
contents between them. The "rahi,"
however turned, out to be nothing but a
solution of cyanide of potash /; and when
the owner returned to his studio, there
amidst the havoc, he beheld three Bashi-
Bazouks lying dead on the ground, with
the fatal bottle between them.-LOndOn
Examiner.
Year: 1877

WHES tho head Of Bulgarian family.
perceives that he is about to die, he sends
for the priest and begins to bargain with
him about the cost of his funeral. Tho
moment no dies, all the pots, pans and
kettles in the house are turned upside
down, to prevent his soul taking refuge in
any Of them, and great care is taken to
prevent either man or animal-especially
u cat or dog-from stepping across tho
body, as otherwise, in the opinion of his
family, he would tarn into VAMPIRE
and be continual nuisance to them and
to their neghbors. The body is buried
without any coffin, in a shallow grave,
and lett there for three years, during
which time many offerings of food and
wine are placed upon it. AT tho end OF
the third year the bones of the dead man
are dug up, carefully washed, put into n
linen bag, laid before the altar in the viii
lage church, and after receiving the bless
ing Of the priest are hnally buried for
good.
Year: 1877

We have been lately told by a gentle man who has had very fair means of knowing what he is talking about, that leading purpose of the Southern Pacific railway, is to build a line to the City of Mexico, and that enginers are or soon will be examining the coun- try south of Gila Bend. It is even thought that Pathfinder" who writes so lively for The Post, is in the employ of the company, and we now call to mind that when his first letter appear ed, The Post spoke of him as an &C., complished engineer who would con tinue into Sonora. It has for a long time been pretty well known that Gov. Stanford has great ambition to con- meet San Francisco and the Capital of Mexico by rail. There is no question of the cOmpany's ability to build a road almost anywhere on land, nor is there any question at all of its disposition to control the carrying trade of the Pacific coast by land and water

 Pathfinder" thinks the east and west line will pass through or very near Tucson, and the road into Mexico go up the Santa Cruz. There is a vast field yet unOccupied by railways, ard the ambition of the Central and Southern Pacific companies is to build and control railways and thereby be all powerful over public affairs in general, and there is no limit to this ambition of the leading men of those companies.
Year: 1877

THE emigration to Arizona from Utah is still going on, and will result in putting at least one county in that Territory into the hands of Mormon officials. The ArizOnians need borrow no trouble on this account, as they will find the brethren" economical in the management of public funds, and they will be sure to put more money into the treasury than they will take out The latest advices from the Little Colorado settlements repre- sents them in a fiourishing condition Beaver, Utah, Square Dealer.
Year: 1877

James II. Mand vile, counsel in land cases in Washington, sends us this decision by Secretary Schurz:

 Where the land was returned on the plat as agricultural in character, but located within the mineral belt, and adjacent lands were returned as of min eral character, whereby the whole town ship was withdrawn as mineral, Held; that the withdrawal shifted the burden of proof upon the agricultural claim ant
Year: 1877

QUITE a number Of prominent men from San Pedro valley have been in town this week, and all agree that a much lar ger acreage Of grain has been sown this year. than ever before in the valley, and that the various crops, although not ad- vanced as hereabouts, are very healthy and promise large yield. The same re- ports come from Pueblo Viejo valley.
Year: 1877

It affords us no small degree of pleas ure to state that the reports of the off, cers of the DEMOCRAT Publishing and Printing Association, for the first quarter of 1877, submitted to a meeting of the stockholders last Friday night, indicate that the DEMOCRAT is in a very decidedly more healthy and prosperous condition than at any pre- vious time of it's existence. The report of the Publisher and Business Manager was most fiattering and showed that the last quarter has witnessed decid- ed progress in the prosperity of the pa per.

 The report of the Treasurer showed in most pleasing manner that tine prosperity indicated by the Publishers report was not merely a paper showing, for the condition of the treasury fully attested the increased popularity and prosperity oi the DEMOCRAT.

 We congratulate the gentlemen whose enterprise and public spirit es- tablished the paper upon the success and prosperity of their enterprise. And especially we congratulate the people of Pope that they now have a paper so firmly and surely established.