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Year: 1877

The following is tue summing up of al

 article in the Pouqhman of last week, en-

 titled May on the Farm" The direction

 gwen In reference to the proper treatmen

 of the potato bug are evidently made afte

 careful experiment and observation, and i

 consistently followed ty cultivators of tn,

 potato, much will doubtless be accom-

 pllshed in checking the ravagcs of the un.

 welcome intruder:

 l. Plant few potatoes ;n your field a early as possible. and destroy the bugs a they appear on them.

 7. For the main crop, plant at good dis tance between the hills and manure wei with ashes or such manures as do not spe. clally promote the growth of the vines.

 5. Pass through the field, after the DO tatoes are up, once week until the tim, of blossoming, picking off all bugs, larya eggs that appear

 4. II for any reason the bugs get be- yond the hand-plcking, use poison till every bug IS destroyed, if not for your own crop. for the benefit of others. 3. As bad as the potato bug is, remem Der that no other injurious insect can be more surely kept in sutjection and des- troyed than 1t; that those who are dete,- mined to raise potatoes can raise them at an extra expense of not over five cents per oushel. in spite of the bugs and their allies, the lndolent farmers. who feed them.

 6. Do not wait till the second crop of bugs appear, and then try to demonstrate that manipulating is powerless against such an army; because that is conceded in the beginning, without any waste of words.

 7. If you are not determined to kill bv hand or poison every bug that appeers on your crop, then do not, as a good neighbor. plant at all.

 AS to corn, it Is rather better not to be in too much of hurry about planting. Moth. ing IS gained. as general rule. by getting in the seed till the ground has become somewhat warm and reasonably dry, and that is not till after the middle or towards the end of the month. It grows enough faster, when put in then, to make up for the delay, and many fix on about the 25th as the best time to plant.

 The area planted to corn last year was very much greater than the year before, and the tendency IS to return to the 'old style" Tn that respect, and to make corn a more prominent crop than it has been of late years. This seems to be change in the right direction, and we hope this splen- did plant will continue to grow in public ia. vor. There is greater reason, thls year, for increasing the area in corn, than in ordina- ry years, for the price, so far as we can see now, is likely to be higher. It is already greatly stimulated by the war in Europe. and there is every reason to be- lieve that the corn growers of this country will be we'll paid. A few cents @ bushel added to the price will often determine the question as to whether it is best to put in corn or not. We throw this out as g hint, merely, for every farmer has the same means of judging that we have.

 Now Is the time to look cut carefully for the garden. The best way IS to increase it's size and to make it a more important adjunct of the farm.
Year: 1877



 to meet once in fortnight at the residenc es where invitations were extended. A fec of ten cents will be required at each meet ing from those attending. Gentlemen are cordially invited to tea, who are willing tc pay the fee, though we would not by any means limit them to that sum should they wish to pay more, for which generosity we will promise them extra attention. .. | hear that Strawberry Festival is also to be held soon by the ladies of the Congregational church, at the Town hall, where the berries, decorations and arrangements for enjoy. ment are to be of superior kind, some parts remaining mystery to all save the committee, till the evetful evening. Two fine gentlemen from a neighboring town were hunting along the Housatonic the oth- CT day, when they espied a dark anlmal running some distance ahead. They at once gave it an enthusiastic chase till they caught up with it. thinking it woodchuck, well, it wasn't......We interviewed "ts. ter buzz yesterday. He was sitting mourn fully on last years corn stalk with a claw to each eye; he said the "old stripes, were in trouble. the warm spell had brought forward the grubs and the cold spell had put back the potatoes, and they should have to Ego west. ......A Berkshire paper complains of not seeing a book agent. Have your We have seen an "agent," to our sorrow; there Is something standing against the bushes at our south door which gives us chill every time we open it. We have always pitied this much abused class. being obliged to do so tor certain home reasons; but now we have been victimized and are in utter rebellion against the whole get. Which is the most sure. prussic acid. pr dog buttons2 c.
Year: 1877

A TERRIBLE SENTENCE. E.-Cragin, one
of the murders Of Smith (near Saginaw,
Mich, that his wife might live with her
lover, has been sentenced for life. The
Saginaw, (Gich.,) Courier Of the 28th
gives the following remarks from the
Judge


'What your motive was which led you
to the commission of this horrid crime
no one knows. The mere pittance you
We're to receive could not have prompted
you to the commission of so terrible a
crime, anl if It is true that you were
prompted to do this act by such pit
tance, then you are unworthy TO be call
ed man. Your past life must have pre-
pared you for such deed. Your only
hope Is that some time the Executive
may commute your sentence so that you
may be permitted once more to see the
sunlight and to work in the shop with
other convicts. But until then you will
be consigned to a living tomb and not
allowed to see even the face of yor1r
keeper, but remain wholly unseen in
loathsome dungeon and fed by unseen
hands, 1t is a fearful thought. 1t is to
be hoped that during your confinement
you may so change, if change be
possible, that you may become a better
and that you may be shown more
mercy than you showed your poor vic
tim when lie pleaded in vain with you
for Gods sake to spare his life
Year: 1877

Coal OIL LAN1Ps.-Persons who use
coal-oil lamps would do well to heed the
following; ''Many things occur to
cause the fame to pass down the wick
and explode the lamp. First-A lamp
may be standing on table or mantle,
and slight puff Of air from the open
window or door may cause an explosion.
Second lamp may be taken up quick
ly from table or mantle and instantly
explode. Third-A lamp is taken into
an entry where there there is a draught,
or out OF doors, and an explosion ensues.
Fourth-A lighted lamp is taken up
flight of stairs, or is raised quickly to
place it on the mantle, resulting in an
explosion. In those cases the mischief
is done by the air movement. either by
suddenly checking the draught, or force
ing air down the chimney against the
flame. Fifth-Blowing down the Chin
ney to extinguish The light is the fre-
quent Gause Of explosion. Sixth-Lamp
explosions have been caused by using Il
chimney broken off at The top, or one
that has piece broken out, whereby
the draught is variable and the fame un-
steady. Seventh-Someti@es Thought
less person puts small sized wick in
large burner, thus leaving considerable
space along the edges of the wick.
Eighth-An old burner, with its ar
draughts clogged up, which rightly
should be thrown away, is sometimes
continued in use and the result is an cx-
DIOsiOn" :"
Year: 1877

SOME very curious reptiles have been
received at the New York A9ual ium.
They are named glass snakes, and come
from the wilds OF Asia. They have the
head of lizard, with well formed eyes
and distinct eyelils and serpentine body,
are entirely harmless, as may be guessed
from their mild expression, and are
about three feet long. A curious fea-
ture of this animal is when it is struck
with stick or other light weapon they
Immediately break into pieces from four
to six inches in length. hence their name
of glass snakes. They are exceedingly
brittle from the middle Of the body to
the tail, and are probably the first that
have ever been exhibited In this country.
Year: 1877

THE man has missed a great treat who
has not risen early on winter morning,
and, turning the Stats, peered out into
the pearly twilight with its shadows Of
dun blue, and seen the soft opal of the
eastern sky Frightening, and The rose
pink of sunrise blushing as it kisses the
the snow, and caught sight Of his wife
shoveling path out to the milkman,
and then hustled back into bed for an
othcr nap
Year: 1877

A COMMERCIAL traveller in q Yankee
city handed q merchant. upon whom he
had called, a portrait of his betrothed
instead of his business card, saying he
represented that establishment. The
merchant examined it carefully, re-
marked that it was a fine establish
nent, and returned it to the astonish-
ed and blushing traveller, with a hope
that he would soon be admitted into
partnership.
Year: 1877

\ ST. LOUIS chemist has discovered a
process by which the human body may
be reduced to q delightful perfume at a
ridiculously small cost, and in an incon-
ceivably short space Of time. By this
process the man who never made q cent
while living viii be able to make a scent
when dead.
Year: 1877

A MOTHERS love is never wholly ex-
h hausted, and when his father whaled
her boy for throwing mud balls against
the ewly-whitewashed fence, that
mother interposed with the remark that
if Custay Dore had such father he
never would have been the famous
painter that he is.
Year: 1877

A PRETTY young lady whose Christian
name is Anna, took cigar from young
man who had not pluck enough to say
he wished to marry her, twirled it play
fully beneath his nose, and looking
archly at him popped the question thus 8:
''Have Auna?'
Year: 1877

AN experienced lady observes that a
good way to pick ont husband is to
see how patiently he waits for dinner
when it is behind time. Her husband
remarks that good way to pick out
wife is to see whether a woman has din
ner ready in time
Year: 1877

If there is anything that Will make a
man suddenly recollect that he is not a
blue and gold butterfly in rose pink
atmosphere it is to have his wife yell
at him as he goes through the door,
Remember, George, the coal is out
and we haven't got any kindling wood
and there's not single potato in the
celIer' Remember that you don't for
Get it now
Year: 1877

TIE Leader is troubled about that
Grand Jury report about Col. Furlong.
The editor Of the Leader is a lawyer
and be knows that Grand Juries act on
ex parte evidence. The evidence in
this csse was on account of some cleri.
col errors, and the recommendation Of
the Grand Jury never had the least ef.
feet upon any who are acquainted with
all the facts. Go to, Captain. You are
rash, and your judgment is bad.
Year: 1877

TIE Leader wants to kaow about
those three hundred votes that were
polled more than there are registered
voters in this county. In the fret
place the Primary Election was not
governed by the white registration Of
last year at all. If q man Is now en-.
titled to vote, he was allowed 10 vote
at the Primary. The voting population
Of this city and county is Increasing
every year. In addition to ibiS, somO
of the voters voted here and then
voted at PriOr'S Church; If Captain
Spears has good Judgment he can tell
in whose interest. This cry Of fraud
won't do, for the defeated side got, in
our opinion, the best of It. The Exec.
ntive Committee has declared the re-
suit, and it ought to be binding.
Year: 1877

GENERAL GRANT never made ont
very well in his issues Of veracity
with living men. There is some Gu.
riosity now to see how he will fare in
bis controversy with two dead men,
Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1877

He succeeded Hendricks in the Senate. At
the expiration of his Senatorial term he was
made Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in
which capacity he served under Secretary
Brlstow. lie was a man of commanding
personal appearance, being six feet four inch
es IN height and weighing over 300 pounds.
He was finished scholar, OF great and re-
fined mental culture, with genial dsposi-
tion.


There Is no sense in shutting our eyes to
the fact that the infationists are organizing
everywhere, and that the only thing which
induces them to do so is the cry for the
reconciliation Of silver. If that cry is to be
listened to we must prepare to make our
account with the greenback movement again,
to fight once more the tedious and perilous
battle which appeared so near an end, and to
give up all hope of ledeeming the national
promise of resumption in 1879. II any one
seriously supposes that a halfway house
exists between silver initiation and greenback
imitation, to which the country can 60 and
there stop, it can only be because he has
gravely mistaken the situation.-N. Y. Times.


-Kimball esq of New Hampshire, has been
found gulty-probably by jury OF his peers
of murder in the second degree. kim
bal, killed his wife by whipping her with a
whip stock, an ox-goad and heavy walnut
cane. This killing, which used up three
weapons, lasted for three hours and was
transacted in almost every room of the happy
home in which it occurred. 1t is not pre-
cisely stated what is a murder in the first de-
gree in New Hampshire, but it is gratifying
to observe that the Judge. in passing sem
tence did not assure - Kimball, esq.,, that
he left the Court "without concession by or
reflection upon him." We hope the case
may not fall under the observation OF the
English committees on Bulgarian atrocities"
as it might lead to international complca-
tions.-N. Y. World,
Year: 1877

IT is evident that France is to pass through
another stormy period before she settles up
on her form of government. The scene in
the Assembly, Saturday, shows that the Re-
publcans have at last lost their patience, and
discarded the policy of restraint which has
won for them the admiration of the world.
They.lost their temper too on very slight
provocation. There is not another country
in the world where call to order by the
presiding officer of national legislature
would make men 'turn pale with passion"
as the cable reports, and produce scene of
the widest disorder. The Incorporate
course of the Republicans is greatly to be re-
gretted, for it frightens the timid property
holding classes and leads them to prefer a
strong personal government, like that which
MacMahon seeks to establish, to the turbulent
freedom of a government by the people.
This fear will be taken advantage of by the
reactionary party, in the coming elections
and may give them the majority in the new
Assembly.


The debate shows that the Republicans
look upon Theirs as their leader, and mean,
if possible, to make him the successor of
MacMahon. Their great mistake was that of
permitting him to leave the executive chair.
But two years have made great changes in
French politics. 1t was not long ago that Gam
beta was denouncing the man he now so
fervently eulogizes, as a superannuated in
triguer whose faculties age had dulled, aud
Thiers was calling Gambetta furious mad
man. Other Republicans were styling the
aged statesman ga rope-walking Judas"
whatever that means. They have now
found that Thiers is the first statesman of
France. 1t is to be hoped that their wisdom
has not come to them too late.
Year: 1877

The correspondents with the Russian
Army of the Danube begin to despair of ever
being able to accurately forecast military
movements in that quarter. So secret are
the plans and intentions of the commanders,
and so rigid the censorship over press dis
patches sent forward from within the lines,
that it would not be surprising if the attempt
should be made and the crossing of the DAN
ube effected a day or two before the news
papers found it out or were permitted to tele-
graph the facts. One thing seems to be en-
tirely certain: that the Russians are all
ready to cross the river, and the only thing
left the correspondents is the privilege of
wondering why they don't do it,
Year: 1877

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


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

VEsUv1Us threatens another eruption, and
there is a prospect that Pompeii will be
buried again. Only one-half the city has
been exhumed, and its reinterment will in
volve an immense loss 10 those who have
been interested in digging it out from the
mass of mud and volcanic deposit that en-
veloped it eighteen hundred years ago.
Year: 1877

ALL the talk in Europe about patching up
a peace seems to have faded away into thin
air. The most sanguinary are likely to have
all the blood letting they will want to see,
now that nothing seems left but the terrible
ordeal of battle.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1877

A CHEERFUL HoME.-God requires pa-
rent to make cheerful attractive home In the
pressure of business the tendency among us
is to neglect home life. Home is made dreary
and repellant, and the child finds his chief
attraction abroad. This is fatal mistake.
For when the love of home has perished
from the heart of child, then the first step
is already taken in career Of sin. Repelled
from home, be is driven to other associations,
and often seeks in the saloon, the theatre, or
the haunt of vice, that recreation God meant
him to have in his own mothers house.
Many a son, who might have been saved to
a noble life, has been driven by a cherries
home, to dissipation and ruin.


Now, Christian parent God meant you
should make your house the most attractive
place on earth to your children. However
humble, it should still be cheerful, joyous.
Religion at home should not be cold, morose,
gloomy and repellant; but genial, joyous-a
perpetual Joy beaming from the eye, lighting
up the countenance, and thrilling in the very
tones of the voice. Make your home sun.
shiny and happy. The young heart is boil
ing over with glee and frolic. God made it
so and you should provide the means of in.
nocent recreation. Youth is the period Of
impression and imitation, when refined tastes,
noble sympathies, and holy aspirations are
most readily developed. Provide, then,
books, and papers, and pictures, and flowers
at home,-every appliance to awaken and
strengthen all that is pure and noble in them
Let your children feel that their fathers
house is the dearest, happiest spot Oh earth
and as they pass into life's activities and re
sponsihilities, let them remember the home Of
their childhood, not by its bitter words and
hard drudgery, where they simply ate and
drank, and slept, hut as the sunniest spot in
all the past, where their sweetest and holiest
affections gather, ......., ... .,,....I u; q:
Year: 1877

We want few private words with the boys.
The truth is We have great idea of boys.
We used to think men were made Of boys.
We begin to think now that those were old
fashioned notions, that they are all out of
date. We look around and see great many
persons grown up, with mems clothes on, who
are called men. But what we wish to put in
to the ears of the boys is this-be gentlemen.
In this country every boy may grow up to be
gentleman if he will. It is not necessary
that he should become rich-and most boys
think it is-nor is it necessary that he should
become great scholar, nor that he should
become distinguished man.


But some impatient ones are asking, How
can we become gentlemen? How can boy
20 about making himself one2 Can he work
for it2 Yes, be can. And the harder he
works in the right way the better. Can he
study for iti Yes, be can. But he must
study with his eyes and his ears. Reading
books and newspapers are not enough. He
must think and feel. as we'll as speak and act.
Can he buy it? No, he can not Money
will buy great many things, but it will not
buy what makes gentleman. If you have
money you can go to shop and buy clothes.
But hat, coat, pants and boots do not make
gentleman. They make a fop, and some
times they come near making a fool. Money
will buy dogs and horses But how many
dogs and horses do you think; it will take to
make gentleman ? Let 40 boy, therefore,
think he is to be made d gentleman by the
clothes he wears, the horse he rides, the stick
he carries, the dog that trots after him, the
house that he lives in, OF the money he spends.
Not one of all these things do it-and yet
every boy may be a gentleman. he may
wear an old hat cheap clothes, have no hor-
ses, live in poor house, and spend but little
money, and still be gentleman. But how ?
By being true, manly, and honorable By
keeping himself neat and respectable By
being civil and courteous. By doing the best
he knows how. And finally, and above all,
by fearing God and keeping his command
ments.-Par;sh Nsior.
Year: 1877

One day last week an alligator was seen
swimming in Sampit river, near the
wharf. Captain David Steele's bull dog
was soon brought forward, and, upon
viewing the enemy, plunged off the wharf
to meet it. The alligator saw what was
up, and made for the dog. While they
approached each other, not sound could
be heard from the spectators, who were
expecting the moment they met to see
the dog submerged, never to rise again
but the dog got the first hold, plunged
his ugly teeth in the head OF the ferociOus
monster, and caused it to sink. 1t soon
reappeared, looking as fierce as ever.
The dog and the alligator were soon mouth
and mouth nip and tuck, until it was
thought that the dog had conquered, the
alligator disappearing. The dog, being
exhausted, was then picked up by boat.
The gator, however, soon appeared, and
made for the opposite shore. Several
persons got in boats and pursued him un-
til he got under the wharf, vixen one of
the party fired q pistol, and as soon as
the report was heard, the dog leaped from
the boat and under the wharf. It was
nip and tuck again for awhile, but the
dog, soon gaining the advantage, brought
out his foe dead. The reptile measured
five feet and several inches Gs0rgeto,gn
C0UJef
Year: 1877

One of the most singular cases ever
brought before the courts has just come
up in this city. A man died, leaving his
property, one-third to his wife, one-third
to his child, and the ether third to
child then unborn The unborn party,
however, proved to be twins, and the
executors sorely Perplexed as TO whether
he shall divide the third, giving each of
the twins one-sixth of the estate, or
whether he shall carry out the testatOr's
purpose to serve all the children alike,
by giving them and the widow one
fourth or whether, again. he shall give
the widow her third and divide the other
two-thirds among the three children.
The case being wholly without precedent
in this state. the court gives the executor
no advice. and the coaundrum is to be in
some way brought before the probate su-
preme court.-.SDringieid Mass Des-
patch.