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Year: 1875

This would soon pay Us out OF
debt, and is twice our taxes for
the present year. Give us this
dog tax law, and the local option,
and we can save enough in three
years to pay all our debts, and af-
ter that we can send greeting to
every valley and plain in the
State, the highly cultivated
school master to develop its great
and progressive intellect. l have
not exaggerated, and l believe all
who hear me will agree that l am
Icorrect. The men of this State
K~ho own its lands and pay its tax
es. and make it whet l. is, favor
this law. Those oppose it gener'


ally who have no taxable proper
Ity and wish to keep mean ours to
Eclear the State of mutton and


wool. We, On this floor. are prob
IabIy wearing wool grown on the
Alps, on the bills and plains that
Ionce echoed to the music of the
Ibucolics rendered immortal by the
genius OF Virgil.


Our mountains and plains are
adapted to sheep raising. On
millions of acres nutritive grasses
fall uncroped to the ground,
There are no sheep to eat it and


transfer it into mutton and wool
to feed and clothe our people
Mongrel puppies, whelps and
Year: 1875

So FAR as We can learn there is no
blame TO be attached to the jailer or
sheriff for the escape Of the prisoners
from the Jail yesterday. 1t was the re-
suit of vigilance On the part Of the
ulizOneTs.
Year: 1875

THE chamber Of commerce and the
cotton exchange have indorsed the reso-
lutioDs Of the underwriters asking the
legislature not TO repeal the interest law.
We hope they will be heard to their sat-
fsafinn
Year: 1875

CURIOUS VEGETABLE LIFE.-There
are many curious facts about vegetable
life. We can, for example, graft the
apricot on the plum, and the peach on
the apricot, and the almond on the peach,
and thus we may produce tree with plum
roots and almond-leayes. The wood how
ever, Of the stem will consist of four
distinct varieties, though formed from one
continuous layer Below the almoud-wood
and bark we shall have perfect peach-wood
and bark, then perfect apricot-wood aud
bark, aud at the bottom plum-wood and
bark. In this curious instance we sec the
intimate correspondence between the bark
and leaf, for If we should remove the
almond-branches We might cause the several
sorts Of wood TO develop buds and leafy
twigs each Of its own kind. Each section
Of the compound stem has it's seat Of life
in the cambium layer, aud the cambium of
each reproduces cells Of its own species out
of common nutrient fluid
Year: 1875

The Hanover, Pa. Citizen says Some
time since, there appeared in York paper
a statement concerning wild man, said
to have been discovered near our town.
The article, though incorrect in most par
ticulars, was not wanting in that grain Of
truth which generally saves 4 sensational
story from utter condemnation as being
made out of whole cloth We have taken
pains to ascertain the whole truth, which
We now lay before our readers, and surely
it is sad enough; for the condition of the
subject would really be no worse; would
in fact be far better, had be been born in
sayagery. Daniel Luckenbaugh, the man
in question, was born about sixty years
ago, near Jefferson, this county. His
parents were respectable people, and gave
their son an ordinary English education.
Doubtless his mind was early imbued with
the sad superstition which, in after life,
has made him an object of mingled loath
ing, fear aud pity. When a young man
he married, and as far as the world saw,
prospered in business. Death invaded his
home, and after short intervals his parents
and wife died His mind became affect
ed, and about twenty years ago he was
wholly overcome by the delusion that he
was under the spell Of evil spirits, who
were tormenting him. Forsaking his
friends, he betook himself to the solitude
Of the woods, near the farm of Mr. John
Hoffacker, in West Mannheim township,
about six miles southeast of Hanover,
where he built himself small hut, made
of earth, in which he passed number of
years. Some kind neighbors, taking pity
on him, put up small, but comfortable
building. He occupied this only short
time, for under the notion that the
"witches" were after him, he fred his
home and it was burned to the ground.
For shelter he dug pit in the ground
about eleven feet long by three feet wide
and he same depth, with a covering of
stone and earth, where he has since spent
his miserable days His furniture consists
of bed of filthy rags and cooking ap-
paratus that would disgrace Digger In
dian-comprising tiny stove, (the gift
of neighbor,) an old dingy coffee pot, a
jar and several old crooks. He is covered
with rags, his feet bare, and presents a
horrible appearance. He is about five feet
nine inches tall, small beard and long thin
hair, on long and rather well shaped
head. He is said to be of great strength
and very swift Of foot, and at times very
savage and dangerous. He is quite deal,
and it is said he has quite good memory.
He has an especial fondness for tobacco,
and as far as known has never been sick.
The neighbos-some moved by fear and
others by pity-furnish him with food.
Taken altogether, we have never seen so
wretched being, or SO miserable a sight
outside an insane asylum, and few there
that eau match the utter wretchedness Of
this poor old man.
Year: 1875

SPRUCE UP.--If you get moment to
spare, spruce up; put the gate on its hin
ges; put little paint or the picket fence
you built last year, trim up the yard; make
il cosy and inviting. Do not say you can't
find time 10 attend to these things. The
fact is, you have no right to be slovenly.
II can do no good, but on the contrary, il
viii mar your peace, wound your selfre-
spect and impair your credit. Then BY
all means, spruce up little at ode times,
and at even times too for that matter. Il
win make you feel vastly better, and you
may be triAe proud Of your pretty home
stead; yur wife aud children viii Be made
happier for it your neighbors win be en-
riched and blessed BY II, And your farm
win be worth more money in the market
and Of greater value at homo II you spruce
up little now and then.
Year: 1875

HOUSEHOLD HrNTs.- tablespoonful
of black pepper put in the first water in
which gray and buff linens are washed
will keep them from spotting. twill also
keep the colcrs Of black or colored cam
brics or muslins from running, and does
not harden the water A little gum arabic
imparts gloss TO ordinary starch.
Year: 1875

It is well known that the blue and
scarlet colors In juxtaposition cause dag.
King effect on the eye. These colors,
strung on line and placed over strawberry
beds, produce a puzzling effect on the
birds, and il Is said no bird will enter the
garden while these colors hntter in the air.
Year: 1875

All bachelors are not entirely lost 10 the
refinement Of sentiment, for the following
toast was given BY one Of them at pub
lic dinner-aThe ladies, sweet briars in
the garden Of life
Year: 1875

SOME QUEER RAILWAY BUILDERS
There We're workmen on the Pacific Rail.
way even more curious than the Irish or
Chinese navvies. During the summer of
1868, the Laramie river became very low.
muck to the distress of a contractor who
had cut great many thousand crossties-
the timbers on which the rails are laid
and which he expected to float down to the
point where the railroad was to cross.
He was at first at loss to know what to
do, but resolved, finally, to build dams
across the river at various points, and,
when the stream was thus made high
enough, set his RATS afloat. Large par.
ties Of men, therefore, went to work build.
ing the dams. No sooner would the men
leave off work at night than thousands of
beavers would begin and work hard at the
dam during the whole night. Water is
always as necessary to the comfort OF
beavers as on this occasion it was to the
welfare Of the contractor; and it was
probably for this reason, and not because
they wished to see the railroad finished,
that the beaver community joined ia ,he
labor Of building the dams.-!St. Nicholas
for December.
Year: 1875

An old negro woman by the name
of Brown, living about nine miles
south of Covington, KY, had a
daughter 10 or Is years of age, who
had for long time been hed-ridden
with a hopeless attack of paralysis.
Her mother, an incarcerate tiend,
growing weary of the constant care
and trouble which the afflicted child
required at her hands, determined to
put her out of the way and selected
the most cruel and torturing method
that debased ingenuity could suggest
-burnins-expecting to conceal her
crime under the guise OF an accident.
Having perfected her diabolical
plans, about two weeks ago she set
about putting them into execution
Placing the child on chair by the
fireplace, she began saturating the
head and clothing of the almost help
less child from bottle of turpentine
that she had procured for that pur-
pose. The child struggled with
what power of motion she could COM
mand, knocked the bottle from the
hand of the mother and broke it, sat
urating the mothers clothing with the
inflammable fluid. In the struggle
the mothers clothing took fire from
the fireplace and she abandoned her
terrible crime to save her own life
She ran and threw herself into q
branch near by, and extinguished the
flames, but not until she had been
fatally burned. At the time it was
supposed to be an accident, dut the
monster woman subsequently, when
in the agonies of death, revealed the
facts as above detailed.
Year: 1875

The New York World says of it:
In theory the utility of the invention
seems very clear. The passenger on
board our ocean steamers has only to
put on his India rubber suit before
embarking, and he is safe from
drowning, whatever may happen to
his vessel. IF the latter meets with
fatal accident the provident passen-
ger can blow his coat and trousers,
cram few days. rations into his wa
tcr-proof knapsack, and abandoning
the ship, 60 on board of himself
merrily ashore. He cannot spring
leak, nor take fire, nor shift his cargo
as an extraneous vessel is liable to
do. He is in little danger of being
struck by lightning or of wrecking
himself on an iceberg by recklessly
scudding through fog. With the
exception of the chance of collision
with some fast steamer, or Of "dlfi-
Guilty." as Southern journalists phrase
it, with bullying shark or a swash-
buckling swordfsh, he runs hardly
any such dangers which beset those
who 60 down to the sea in ships.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Eva Marcus, who lives at l89
Broadway, exhibited rare presence
Of mind yesterday. While standing
near the stove, about noon, her
clothes caught fire, but she did not
discover it until the blaze shot over
her shoulder. Contrary to the
actions of most persons in such a
critical moment, she retained her
presence of mind enough to realize
her danger and act nationally. Throw
ing back the covering from bed
near by jumped in, and, pulling the
quilts tight about her, smothered the
flames effectually. With the excep-
ton of burn on the arm and badly
singed hair, she suffered no bodily in
jury. The lady says she probably
never went to bed so quick as she
did yesterday, and it was certainly
the first time she forgot to remove
her shoes before retiring. 1t is the
first instance of covering up because
she was too warm that we have ever
heard of.
Year: 1875




We first want to understand what
distilling means. It is the art Of re-
ducing the proportion of water, and
increasing that Of alcohol. Thus you
see the distilled liquors are stronger,
more fiery and stimulating than beer,
ETC., which are only fomented, be-
cause they have more alcohol in
them. We will see what.thc process
is. The liquor, such as fermented
grapejuicc or fermented wort of malt,
is put into still, large vessel with
a dome-head, having a spout-like pipe
passing away from it. That pipe,
after it grows narrow, is bent round
and round amongst water to keep it
cold. The fire under the still makes
the liquor hot; the alcohol rises up in
steam or vapor, and at less heat
than what it is mixed with. The
vapor goes away along the tube or
worm, as it is called. and is cooled
so as to become liquid, and run out
as spirits. These are doctered in
various ways, before they get to the
market, but that is how they are pro-
duced. The alcohol as it comes from
the still is SO strong and powerful
that it would kill any one who should
drink it. 1t is rink poison, and
has to be adulterated greatly before
any one can drink it safely. The dis
tillers have way of their own OF
doctoring this alcohol, adding a great
deal of water to weaken it, and then
putting in certain drugs and poisons
to give it the particular flavor and
twang they like, even using lead, oil
of vitriol, oil of turpentine, red pep
per, benzine, nux vomica. Though
the amount Of alcohol is lessened,
what remains there is still a poison
and always poison. / cannot begin
to tell you of all the deceptions used
in the liquor business, but we know
this: that very few people know what
they are drinking, and if they could
only see the different stuffs put in,
they would lift up their hands in
horror. But being told merely does
not convince them. So many like to
drink that they think temperance
people only say these things to fright
en- them. When will people desire
to learn what is good and what hurts
them? You all want to learn, don't
You.
Year: 1875

with the compilations Of Moors and the shoulders OF
Atlas, who saunter around without any visible Occu-
patton except Ia enjoy all the sunshine OF these gor-
ous mid-July days Here the colors break out
more Rercely than ever. Yale and Columbia contend
ing for the lead There signs Of preparation too
One group is the Yale crew. just setting ont for
walk around the lake. Another is engaged III solicit
Gus study of shell. and of the number lies on
his face and runs his eye along her length III search
of some hidden defect that may deprive them OF
victory On the right shore Of the lake. looking up
from Briggs Hotel is the frame OF the grand stan


with men swarming all over it, looking for all the
world like the skeleton of some gigantic vertebrate
newly landed by the waves This ~ not the only
sound of the hammer that breaks the SaDDath
silence. Just to the left work is advancing rap
idly on small steamer intended for gentle
mans private use, who evidently thinks the
sabbath was made for man, and not that he was
made for the Sabbath But most of the visible college
men, with the exception of the Yale are merely
the Ioungers the aiders and abetors of the regatta
The contestants in the race are hidden away in little
houses all along the shore. like birds nests IN a
tbicket and only to be found sometimes after beat
inp the bushes Now and then, n token OF their
place is given by long, slender line that shoots out
from the shore and develops sooner than Mt.
Darwin cOnld tell about it, That is crew, or was
for it is out of sight now, and perhaps you may get
assurance of their whereabouts by coming upon a
aroup of half-naked sayagcs at game OF ball III
some woody opening, their broad. bronzed backs
gistening in the sun, and their muscles strung
with the strength of young barbarans mt play On
the summit of Snake HILL the flag of Cornell DEN
antly flies its red and white against the sky to all
comers. Below, a. if under it in command stretch
the long lines of flags marking the courses to be fol-
lowed by the boats. At this distance they se"nl
like occasional spots the surface of the water ana
of an impartial black but under the glass the lines
trend away from the eye and each color slowly lifts
itself from the deep blue Of the lake. Somewhere
there is the flag of the winning crew. What 1t Is 10
be. a hundred college boys would give year OF
their lives to know. What it IL to be the lake gives
no sign. though it must be in the secret fresn
water can be as shrewd salt water when 1t
chooses and this only mocks you when you ask the


issue of the fierce though friendly contest that IS
soon to fret its surface.
Year: 1875

There is no remedy and assistant


so easily and cheaply obtained, so
harmless to the fowls, nor so salts
factory in its results as sulphur.
1t being in the system of animals
to a small degree, there is greater
affinity for it than there otherwise
would be. 1t can be administered
to the fowls by having it in a small
box, so that they can help them
selves, or by mixing it with their
food once week, or as often as
there are indications of vermin.
Penetrating as it does, to every
part of the system all parasites
are quickly and surely destroyed.
Also gapcs are said to be prevent
ed in chickens. Fowls need it
more than most animals, their
feathers containing between four
and five per cent. OF sulphur. Their
eggs also have a small quantity
which is noticed by the discoloring
of silver spoon when it comes in
contact with a boiled egg. Applied
externally to the fowls when on the
nest, to the nest itself, or mixed
with the soil in the dusting-box, it
is equally efficacious in destroying
vermin.


To be used as a fumigator of
buildings, it is necessary to remove
the fowls, close the room or house,
mix little saltpetre with the sui
phur, in an iron vessel, and apply
a match to the mixture. This
should be done in the morning,
and the doors and window opened.


Lard mixed with sulphur in
proper proportions and applied as
often as is necessary to the feathers
on the neck and back Of old and
young turkeys is a very good safe
guard against the ravages Of foxes.


For our own profit, and the COM
fort Of all fowls, let us then use
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Utica


Herald holds the following ground


in relation to the feeding of milch


cows on grass and hay. The i'm
portant point to Western diarymen


is one made in relation to cutting


hay when young:


find that grass alone, whether
{ green or cured, answers all pur-
posed the year round (by grass 1
include clover), with this one i'm
portant qualification-that it be
cut green and we'll cured. This
makes about half difference that
is, there is about as much available
substance in one pound of green
feed dried, as in two pounds when
ripe. l know instances where
cows have been kept during
the winter on twenty-five pounds
of ripe hay per day. They were
of course not in good condition.
But, instead, double the available
nutritive substances, which an
equal weight twenty-five pounds)
of green-dried hay would have
had doubled the nutritive benefit,
which have brought your cows to
a high condition. Or supply the
deficiency by grain, sufficient to
reach this condition, and the
amount would have beed consider
ably more than is usually fed with
old ripe hay and grain, being be-
sides much cheaper.


Grass, green or dried, if of
good quality, and fed all that is
wanted, will produce a maximum,
or very nearly a maximum quantity
of milk, the superior quality of the
milk more than making up what
may be lacking in quantity, SO that
so far as milk alone is concerned,
(green or dried) stands first as a
feed, surprising all other feeds,
whether single or combined. And
it will sustain the animal while
giving milk and while in calf, and
fat her when free of the drair,
Grain would doubtless aid in the
process.
Year: 1875

became damned up during the late
floods, and have not since fallen,


there lives a thrifty farmer, who,


some years ago selected for his


home handsome track of land


lying in the form Of large basin


or amphitheater, on the gentle


slope of which he built his house


and surrounded it with barns, coops


and gardens. In close proximity


he dug a well, there being no run
stream on the place. And now
the pleasant homo is desolate, the
chicken-roosts float to the sport of
the wind, and a weary waste of
waters surrounds and covers the
grounds, and flows in and out of
the doors of the dwelling; and all
this wide spread ruin is the result
of a strange freak of the well the
farmer dug some time since. Dur
ing the heavy rains, and while so
much water was standing on the
ground, the well commenced to rise
rapidly, and soon the water began
pouring forth from its mouth with
the force of n mill-race, and has
continued to do so ever since, so
that the basin in which the house
stands is now a lake. AS to where
the water comes from is a mooted
question, but the most plausible
theory is that Lost Creek is MAX
ing the old well available for a
new outlet. The water is, on the
railroad track in the vicinity, in
some places two feet deep. The
phenomenon is certainly a strange
one, and excites general interest.
Year: 1875

An old man who had much ex-
perience in handling and dealing
in horses for more than half q CEN
tury, said to me recently that he
had never known a horse to get
tender-footed that was kept loose
In a shed or yard, or in a boxed
stall. That turning around and
treading with their forward feet in
the manure, keep them constantly
moist and soft. His theory ap-
peared quite reasonable to me. 1
have no box stalls, but l used
shavings for bedding, and every
morning with large shovel, I
moved the wet shavings under the
horses forward feet, and then the
last thing at night cover these with
dry shavings for him to lie on. He
also remarked that he never knew
a flat-footed horse but that was q
good worker.-Licc Stock Journal
Year: 1875

accounts, had not been discovered. 1t l.
not known in which way they have gone
to have consummated that act when
makes them


1.-TWO souls with but single thought


Two hearts that beat as one
but We suppose they will find the place
before they return. In case they do, 1t is
to be hoped that they will receive the
patcrnal blessing, and forever after live
in the realms of happiness and content
mont.
Year: 1875

editors. with their invariablo certificate OF
high moral character for the party candidate,
do a good deal to confuse the popular mind.
Just now the more reckless Of them are cover
ing all over with praise legislator who, when
he was asked to east an additional vote in ex-
cess of tho number for which he had been
paid, said "No Sir; that was mt in the con-
tract This is the kind of man who must be
extermnated before the biographies will cease
placing Sodom and Albany together in the list
of famous and wicked capitals.
Year: 1875

Free education grows in favor at the South
The general tenor of the report OF Superih-
tendent Sears to the Trustees of the Peabody
Fund is most encouraging. Nothing shows
the hold that the cause of public instruction
is gaining upon the hearts of the people more
than the liberal contributions for the past year
1t is significant that the States which make
the best exhibit in this respect are those
which first threw of the yoke of carpet-bag
governments. Virginia heads the list with
Tennessee closely following; in nearly ALL
however. the friends of popular education may
find reason for encouragement.
Year: 1875

California energy which has proved adequate
10 raise fallen bank to its feet again, does
not appear to be exhausted by that noble effort
Particulars are given in our local columns or
an undertaking by capitalists of the Pacific
coast which is of even more general import
ancc. They propose to go forward III the
work of organizing National Telegraph
Company, believing that they can etaoll'h
new lines throughout the United States so
chcapy as to be able TO offer their Use to the
public at much lower rates than are now
charged bv the Western Union, and Atlantic
and Pacific Companies. Should the enterprise
succeed it will earn national gratitude.