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Year: 1877

The pickles or small cucumbers should
be carefully assorted as they come from
the field, and all large ones salted by
themselves or thrown away. The large
ones need more salt; are harder to keep
and 10 prepare for sale, and sell for much
less. A cucumber that begins 20 grow
yellow, or Is too large tO count 100 to the
bushel, should not he salted at all. The
medium sized ones, counting about 800
to the bushel, are the sizes mostly wanted
As soon as assorted, they should be placed
in empty beef barrels or molasses hogs
heads and covered with brine; the brine
is made strong enough to float potato,
and the pickles are kept under by head
lifting the barrel loosely, and loaded with
one or two stones of about 20 pounds
weight each for a hogshead. The brine
suon becomes weak by absorbing the
fresh juice OF the pickles, and will need
to be drawn of and poured on again in
order, to thoroughly mix the stronger
brine at the bottom of the package with
the portion at the top, which is weaker.
This should be repeated two or three
times at intervals OF two or three days,
and if the brine is on large pickles few
handfuls of salt added each time. If
carefully kept under the brine and the
surface of the brine kept equally mixed
with what is below, there will be no
trouble in keeping them.


They are taken out of the brine several
days before wanted for sale, and placed
in fresh, cold water, which must be
changed as often as convenient-say two
or three times day-and after four or
five days they will be fresh enough to
receive the vinegar. The strongest of
white wine (whisky) vinegar is used, and
allspice and pepper added to taste. There
is no need of scalding either the pickles
or vinegar; if the latter is strong enough
they will keep. Cider vinegar is of un-
certain strength, and is often too weak
to keep pickles after warm weather be-
gins. If the vinegar is not strong enough,
scalding will do no good. Pickles thus
prepared are known as English pickles,
and have a dull yellowish- brown color,
impaired by the brine. The bright green
color often seen in the pickles in market
is impaired by scalding them, when taken
out Of the brine, in copper kettle; they
absorb enough verdigris from the kettle
to give them the desired color, and yet
so little that copper poisoning from eat
ing pickles is thing unknown. Still it
is one of the signs of increasing knowl-
edge of what is done in preparing our
food, and of care in rejecting anything
suspicious, that the green pickle, so uni
versally used few years since, is fast
becoming unpopular, and giving place to
the English pickle, prepared without
copper. Peppers, beans, caulifowers,
unripe melons, and martynias are pre-
pared in the same way as cucumbers.-
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1877

RIPE TOMATO PRESERVES red pre-
serves are desired, choose small, red,
plum. shaped tomatoes; for yellow pre-
serves, the round yellow Gregg tomatoes


scald with boiling water to take the skins
off. Put five pounds Of the tomatoes with
four pounds of sugar, and let them stand
one night. In the morning drain oft the
syrup and boil it, skimming carefully,
Put in the tomatoes and boil slowly
tor half an hour, with the juice Of two
lemons and little bag Of ginger root


Take out with skinner and set in the
sun to harden. Boil the syrup down until
it thickens, add the white of an egg and
skim we'll Put the fruit into the jars
and fill up with the hot syrup. Seal OF
tie up when cold. d.
Year: 1877

1t is idle to assert IN the presence of
girls that the way in which they dress is
of no consequence. 1t is really of great
consequence. A woman's dress is the
outward expression of her inward life.
If she be coarse, vulgar, fond of display,
and bent on low, material ends, her
dress, though extravagant, will be an
unconscious revelation of her character


If she be modest, self-reliant and cult
waited in the best direction, 5he style of
her ordinary apparel will beft.her, as
the leaves beft the flower. But in
America young girls are too often over
dressed. The rounded cheeks, the
bright eyes, the waving hair of girl in
her teens need only the simplest setting.
Rich fabrics and sumptuous adorning
are more for the matron, her dress gain
ing in ample fold and graceful sweep as
she puts on the dignity of years. The
seasons teach US something here, if we
go to nature for an object-lesson. How
different her charm from the deep, ma
turing summer, when the hues are deci-
ded, and the air is loaded with perfume
from a thousand censers. The school
girl is only on the threshold of summer.
She has not crossed it yet. Let her copy
the sweet grace of the spring on her
graduation day.-CbristiGnIas INTEL ELigencer.
Year: 1877

A newly invented loom bids fair to
work quite a revolution in the art of
weaving. This loom is built entirely of
metal, even to the shuttle, and is en-
tirely different from any now in use. 1t
is upright instead of horizontal. The
shuttle passes through the warp instead
of over it, as is commonly done, there
by making better goods, for the reason
that the warp is not frayed. 1t does
away with the tied-twine harness, and
in place of them has ingeniously con-
trived metallic ones, which are not only
very durable, but do not chafe the yarns.
Instead of the heavy, cumbersome,
noisy sley, the shuttle-boxes are station
ary, the reed only moving to beat up the
filling. The picker's stick is also dis
pensed with, its place being supplid with
an independent shuttle motion of novel
design, and which acts at the proper
time, no matter at what speed the loom
is running. There are two looms in
one frame, driven by single pulley,
thus requiring but half the usual space !;
it also requires only comparatively
little power, and is capable of great
speed.
Year: 1877

THE st. Louis Republican learns from
trustworthy sources, that the prospects
for the passage of the Texas and Pacific
bill this winter are very good. A care
full canvass of both houses justifies the
statement that safe majority of Sena-
tors and Representatives is favorable to
the project. No bill has yet been intro
duced, but the majorities of both the
Senate and House Committees to which
it will be referred are friendly to the
general question at issue, and it is not
believed that there will be any difficulty
in getting speedy action from them.
Year: 1877

Professor Tice is coming to Bnrling-
ton. He will lecture here next week.
And we are glad of it. There is so much
about the weather that no one else
knows. So much that we want to know
that no one else can tell US. So much
that is strange, intangible, and mystic
rious. So much that is natural, but
amazing. So much that is common, but
disagreeable. We would like to corner
Professor Tice and ask him questions
for week, but as we will not have such
a delightful opportunity, we want him
to tell us all he can in his lecture. We
are going to hear him if, in humble,
child-like imitation of our happier,
guileless, younger days, we have to dive
under the canvas and hook in.


We want to know, then, why the un-
clouded sun always shines in glorious re-
fulgence on a prize-fight? And on the
other hand,


Why it always rains on the Sunday
school picnic?


We want to know why it is that a
pelting rain storm, with occasional
touches of thunder and lightning, fails
to reduce the audience at a theater,
while a cloud the size of mans hand
is sufficient to keep the same people at
home Sunday morning, grieving at be-
ing thus deprived of the privileges of
the sanctuary, but dreading to expose
themselves to the threatening weather.


Why is it that rain always has
greater affinity for South Hill cellar,
than it has for cisternP


Why it is that a snow-storm that dis
tributes only three inches of snow in an
even layer, all over the country, outside
of city limits and in the city streets, will
pile up layer IA inches deep in the
shallowest place, on the sidewalk in front
of a mans house?


And why any snow-storm always
heaps itself up in large drifts about the
wood-shed door, generally piling up
about two feet higher than the top of
the door?


Why it is, that it always SHOWS the
the night a man leaves the ak out il
the yard, and the wood-house door
open? And why it never fails to rain
every time man leaves his hat and
coat on a garden chair, and goes to bed
without thinking of themP


Why the wind always blows hardest
and longest and most viciously about
the houses of people who are most afraid
of it?


Why tornadoes never strike the homes
Of any but real good, excellent people?


If the first rain on record was an ex-
press or accommodation train, and
what time did it makeP


If the man who t'went to thunder''
knew that his departure got noised
around great dealP


If the color of a tornado is sky bluew? !


If cyclone can be negotiated by a
syndicate?


If the mean temperature is ever as
mean anywhere else, as it is in an Iowa



If a man can ''raise the wind'' by ssgo-
ing on a breeze?''


If you can fasten door with a thun-
der bolt?


If, when snow is so soft and noiseless,
a railway train can be snow din?


And finally, what would happen, if
promissory note should be mist before
it is dew?-BarIimgtoaa Hawkeye.


A FALL RIVER factory-girl dreamed |
hat she would be stricken dumb at a
certain hour, and since that time she has t
not sDOken-is unable To ntter a sulla- |
Year: 1877

A FALL RIVER factory-girl dreamed
that she would be stricken dumb at
certain hour, and since that time she has
not spoken--is unable to utter a sylla-
BILE, as she says in writing. Doubtless
she is a monomaniac, but in every other
respect she is physically and mentally
healthy.
Year: 1877

GEN. SHERMAN was before the House
Committee on Military Affairs on the
21st, and was examined at great length
with reference to the Mexican border
troubles. He gave it as his opinion
that the military force on the Rio
Grande was insufficient to afford proper
protection TO the citizens there, and
deemed it necessary that the regiments
now stationed in Texas should be in
creased to their full strength, and that
an additional regiment of infantry and
one of cavalry be sent there.
Year: 1877

IT is understood that Representative
Hewitt of New York will be the Chair
man of the Railroad Committee over
which Clarkson N. Potter declined to
officiatc. Mr.. Hewitt is supposed to be
opposed to all subsidies for railroads,
but as the majority of the committee is
known to be in favor of the Texas and
Pacific road, Mr.. Hewitt, if he is Chair
man, it is supposed will report the bill,
and leave it to the House for action.
Year: 1877

The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations have indefinitely postponed
action upon the nominations of Sanford
as Minister to Belgium and Hilliard as
Minister to Brazil. The nomination
of Charles G. Allen as United States
Marshal for the Western District of
Missouri has been confirmed by the Sen
ate. The President on the 2Oth sent in
a number of additional nominations for
minor Offices, and it is said no more
nominations will be sent to the Senate
during the special session.
Year: 1877

From the London Telegraph


Our woolwich correspondent writes:
The Seton gun will not only be fred
the 32-inch target in its present state


but it will probably be brought back
20 the Royal Arsenal. Woolwich, and
chambered in order tn carry out a
further series Of experiments before
the cracked steel tube can be replaced
by new one. The select committee
intrusted with the care and disposition
of the gun have not yet held a council
to decide upon future action, but its
members are understood to be of one
mind as to the weapon being virtually
unimpaired, and the desirability of
counting the experiments. SO little is
the steel tube regarded as an element
in the strength of the barrel, that it
was once proposed to construct it with
split throughout its whole length, so
as TO admit of some expansion; but as
this would have enabled the powder
gases to reach and destroy the wrough
iron coils, the chief purpose of the
lining would have been naturalized by
such a system. The crack in the tube
is situated in the part Of the gun oc-
cupied by the projectile before being
fred. a point which is considerably
more forward than originally intend
the air spacing of the powder charged
having materially elongated TIE cart
ridge.
Year: 1877

The lash and the whipping post are
likely to resume their ancient place in the
criminal code of Virginia under the la
bors of the Committee of Revision. 1t is
believed that this punishment is not mere
ly the most appropriate and effective for
petit thieves and other minor offenders,


but that 1t is the only available means of
preventing an overflow Of the penitenti-
airy by substituting it in various cases for
confinement in administration. The lash
in fact, has never been formally abolished
in Virginia. and is now in not infrequent
use in several cities and counties of the
Commonwealth, being impartially ad-
ministered to white and black alike.
Year: 1877

The President still stands by bis
friends through good andthrough evil
report, and no matter who may be on
the other side. While the whole coun-
try is commencing his wisdom in sup
porting the compromise plan of count
ing the electoral vote and in resisting
the pressure which is broughtto bear
upon him by Chandler and the Cam
erons, with view TO the overthrow
OF the State Government of Louisiana,
he gives his hen Gilman, Murtagh, a
MT by bold vote Of the bill legislat-
Ing the Police Commissioners of the
district out of Ctfice. AS both houses
passed the bill unanimously and all
the world knows that the Police Board
Is fraud, tbs TO be supposed that the
veto viii amount 10 nothing more than
tribute of respect to Murtagh, after
the pattern OF thatgiven to Boss Sheph-
erd under similar circumstances, What
queer Grant he is, to be sure,
Year: 1877

SACRED CoNcERT.-The Sheppard Jubilee
Singers give sacred concert at Miss Marsh's
theatre tomorrow evening. This is one of the
best jubilee troupes travelling, and the New
York Tribune speaks thus of their concerts:


Steinway Hall was crowded in every part last
night, when sacred concert was given by the
Sheppard Colored Jubilee Singers, a troupe.
that all things considered, occasion matter for
very great astonishment. Uncultured. and
almost fresh from the plantation, these people
sing their peculiar hymns and refrains with an
amount of earnestness that is really impres-
sive. Ignorant even of the alphabet Of music.
their singing is pleasing >in the extreme, their
voices all being sweet and clear and their mode
OF execution quaint and original. Everything
ular applause followed their rendering of
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "Moses.
Don't Touch IT, The basso Of the troupe has
voice of somewhat remarkable COMPASS. and
uses it very effectively, and it is in no way an
eexaggeratlon to say that very eminent vocalsts
frequently afford very much less pleasure than
these uncultured people do.
Year: 1877

An English correspondent with the
Russian army invading Bulgaria says:
"The white caps showed in dense
mass among the willow trees of the
Argis; it was as if mighty host was
pouring through the little plain,
so far stretched the concourse of stall
wart soldiers. This army is white
army now, white to the last shred save
facing and boots. Officers and men
wear loose canvas blouse, which is
the perfection of campaigning gar
ment for warm weather. The white of
it is not so pronounced as to dazzle in
the sunshine, nor do the dust of the
roads and the stain of the bivouac foul
it into absolute. dinginess. 1t can be
washed and dried in an hour.
Year: 1877

A very common error among farmers,
which needs correction, is the opinion
that animals may be fattened in q few
weeks, and fitted for market by heavy
feeding, or, as it is tel med, by pushing.
Many farmers do not think of beginning to
tatten their hogs or cattle for early winter
market until autumn has actually COM
menced. Their food is then suddenly
changed, and they are dosed with large
quantities OF grain or meal. This sudden
change often deranges the system. and it
is frequently some time before they re-
cover from it. From observation and in
quiry we find that the most successful
managers adopt a very different course.
They iced moderately, with great regular
ity, aud for a longer period. The most
successful pork raiser that we have met
with commences the fattening of his
swine Tor the winter market early in the
preceding spring. In fact, he keeps his
young swine in good growing condition
all through the winter. He begins mod
erately, and increases the amount gradu-
ally, never placing before the animal more
than it can freely eat. With this treat
ment, and strict attention to the comfort
and cleanliness of the animal, his spring
pigs at ten months usually exceed three
hundred pounds, and have sometimes
gone as high as four hundred and fifty
pounds, and pigs wintered over reach a
weight of five or six hundred. The corn
which is ground and scalded before feed
ing, nets him, on an average, not less
than one dollar per nushel, when the mar
ket price of pork is five cents per pound.
Christian Union.
Year: 1877

ing rose bush till you have tried watering
it two or three times a week with SCOT tea.
Make the tea with boiling water from
from SCOT taken from the chimney or stove
in which wood is burned. When it is
used up, pour boiling hot water on the
ed in this way will often quickly send out
thrifty shoots. the leaves will become
large and thick, the blossoms will greatly
improve in size and be more richly tinted
than BEFORE"
Year: 1877

1t takes touch of adversely to show
whether man is a man at all, Just as it
needs the touch OF frost to bring out the
glories Of the trees. Even on dark day
in October. how royalty the woods fame
out Under what glorious banners they
march to meet the winter What un-
matched splendors, rich as sunset skies,
tender as the rainbow. shine out over the
whole earth Those spendors are the
treasures that the trees were silently lay
ing up when the summers sun flooded
them all day long. And shall a man. in
his time of prosperity. lay up no store of
sunshine in his inner self. whereby when
darker days come on he shall be luminous
with courage and good cheer p-Beecher.
Year: 1877

No wine glasses were placed for Mr.. and
Mrs. Hayes at the state dinner in the White
House Thursday.


The New York Historical Society has ar
ranged for the celebration of the Tooth anni-
versary of the adoption of the New York state
constitution, and Charles O'Conor has been
selected as the orator.


The Washington Star is authority for the
statement that the President is preparing Q
message to be presented to Congress recon-
meuding an appropriation for the representa-
ton of this country at the Paris Exposition.


Among the recent applicants for post-ofices
from the new Administration are daughter
of ex-senator John j. Crittenden Of Kentucky,
author of the famous Crittenden compromise;
also, a daughter Of Alexander Campbell,
founder of the religious sect known as the
Campbeltes, or Disciples of Jesus Christ.


A practical London manager is making ar
rangements for gratuitously insuring the lives
of his audience. Thus every visitor to his
place of amusement can enjoy the play, with
the reflection that, in case the place burns
down, and he or she goes up, the legal heirs of
the defunct will receive sum Of $4,000.


AT recent fire in a New jersey village Q
dog appeared at chamber window of burn
Ing building, looked out and barked several
times, then turned and rushed back, appearing
soon after at the front door below with one of
his mistress's diamond bracelets in his mouth,
and his hair badly singed by his passage
through the flames.


Among other valuable Government publica-
tions now in the course of preparation is
history of the surveys of scientific explorations
ordered and prosecuted by the United States
during the century now being closed, including
the various foreign and oceanic expeditions,
the surveys of the coast and the lakes, and the
several typographical, scientific and military
surveys of the interior.


A bill before the New York Legislature pro.
vides that proprietors of hotels and boarding
houses must keep in all sleeping rooms moro
than two stories from the ground knotted
rope, at least three.eghths of an inch thick,
ten feet longer than the height of the windows
of such room from the ground. A failure to
provide such ropes shall render the proprietor
of any hotel liable to penalty of $50.
Year: 1877

ONE of the most wonderful facts of the
war and one which ought to bring the blush
OF shame to every Southern white man who
has even indirectly encouraged the Ku-klux,
is that during the war while the Southern
white families were entirely at the mercy of
the colored people, not one suffered at their
hands. This is something no person before
the war would have believed possible.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and commupi
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

THE New York Journal of Commerce
thinks that great war in the East will ma
terially benefit trade in the United States.
Such war, it says, "would create large
European demand for American grain and
flour and provisions of all kinds, and the
effect of this would be to stimulate manufac-
lures and business in.nearly every branch of
industry. Ocean freight would partake of
the improvement, and if England were
dragged by circumstances into the vortex of
the war, American commerce, having the
preference for the carrying trade, would get
start which it has not enjoyed for nearly
twenty years. Americans with these thoughts
In their minds, to say nothing of the concern
which they feel in the promotion of Chris
tianity and civilization in Turkey, will eagerly
watch every days development of the East
ern question:" On the other hand there are
well informed writers who believe that this
theory is fallacious, and that the wish is the
father of the thought. These writer's do not
think that the conflict will be general one,
but that it will be an exclusively Turko-
Russian war
Year: 1877

message and declared that as "he present competitive
rates were above this figure any showing OF prohs
was apparent and not real aud consequently fraud up
on the public according t. the st tute:


Western Union officials characterized the circular as an
effort TO bulldoze Western Union. They Thought MI
Spencers clients were the persons who tried 10
"bear" the stock by injunction last summer Inc
dividend had not yet been declared, but the directors
were TO meet Wednesday and without doubt ~oud de
clare quarterly dividend Of III per cent
Year: 1877

Gen. M. g. Bntler OF South Carolina
is the latest Southern Bourbon who is q
convert to the Presidents policy. He
writes to friend in Pennsylvania ::
president Hayes is elevatlng the states
manship Of the country to higher
plane, and must succeed In his new de-
parture' on that line. TRUST in God he
may, and that we shall henceforth have
less seetionalizm and partisan bitter
ness. The country North as we'll as
South requires peace and quiet and the
development OF u kindlier and more
natural feeling, Republican institu-
items are just as dear to us Of the South
as ever, and we shall feel profound
pride In their complete triumph and
perpetuation. We have a new era in
South Carolina, and under Hampton, .
administration we confidently antici-
pate stride forward in every depart
ment Of life, which will bring happi-
ness and wealth and contentment In its
train to all classes and conditions OF our
people. The millennium has not come,
but the messenger OF peace has, and
we rejoice,"
Year: 1877

Especial to the Demoeratl


LONDON, June N.-The Post publishes in
an official form that the session of Parliament
will not close without sufficient steps being
taken to provide for contingencies, which are
only too distinct. British interests are deep
ly involved in the questions at stake in the
East, and for their further protection the Brit
ish purse must be opened.