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Year: 1874

Wool growers have little cause uf
complaint on account Of the calamitous
results Of the panic Its effect was
only temporary and feetiug. Many Of
the mills were stopped because Of the
exhaustion of their supply of wool,
which at the time could not be replen-


shed tor cash. The managers were
not disposed to submit to the heavy
exactions of the money lenders, es-
pecially while there was every pros
pect, in case the mills generally closed
up, of material decline in the market
value of wool. But as soon as the full
bounds of the financial crisis bad been
reached, and the money market gave
evidence Of improvement in the great
er case of money, many Of the mills
which had been closed resumed opera
tions. AS it was known the available
stock Of fleece wool was small, the inn
proved demand in consequence of the
resumption early created an advance,
so that the slight decline caused by the
panic was very soon recovered. Al
though the demand for consumption
has not been large through the holi-
days, the advanced prices have been
fully maintained with every indication
of continued frmoess and possibly a
further advance. During the panic,
importers, naturally suspicious of our
market, sent most Of their wool to
other markets therefore in foreign
woods, including California and Texas,
the market is not overstocked with
good lots. aud consequently the MAIN
tenance of full rates in these grades
may be anticipated. The European
markets being reported strong, there
is little prospect of large importations
for manufacturing purposes until ma-
terial advance takes place in our de-
mestic fleece wool. Yet the supply Of
domestic wool is thought to be con-
siderably short of the requirements of
the machinery at present in operation
which encourages the belief that there
must be an advance in domestic. and
that the. deficiency must be supplied
by importation Of foreign wool.-Bmf
falo Erpress.
Year: 1874

While Warren Young was out deer
hunting the other day, he had occasion
to pass through thicket Of under
brush. A rustling in the bushes at
tracted his attention, and he spied a
big buck few rods distant. The inter-
vening bushes were so dense however,
that it was doubtful to the hunter if a
charge of shot would reach him. But
there was no chance to get better view
without alarming the game, SO no time
was lost in giving him the contents of
one barrel. The startled animal sprang
forward, and as he came into a more
open space. Young blazed away with
the other barrel, and the deer dropped.
In the excitement Of the moment be
rushed up to the deer without reload
ing his gun, when to his surprise the
animal sprang to his feet with his eyes
full of fight. Our hunter beat hasty
retreat with the old buck in hot pursuit.
1t was close race through the bush es
for several rods. Warren had thrown
away his useless gun, and got out the
only weapon he had for defence, a
common clasp knife. A couple of
whacks in the back reminded the hun
ter that the race was about over, and
as a last resort he jumped into
brush heap followed by the pursuing
deer. Hardly knowing what to do and
too tired to do much of any thing, War
rem struck backward blow at random
with his open knife and luckily buried
it.in the Deer's neck, cutting one OF
the main arteries. This ended the
struggle, for the wounded deer stagger-
ed and fell. 1t was close call for the
hunter. as any one who knows the
fighting qualities Of a wounded buck
will readily admit-Dunn 20. Neeos.
Year: 1874

THEY are likely to have some fine
legal quibbling in a murder case at
Cincinnati. A deaf mute recently
murdered a policeman in cold blood,
and it is doubtful if he can ever be
brought to trial, as the thirty-first sec
ton of the Ohio crimes AT provides
that s'if any person indicted for any
offense whatever, on being arraigned
on such indictment, shall stand mute,
jury shall forthwith be impanneled
to try and say whether such a person
stands obstinately y mute and on purpose
or by the act of God and if they return
their verdict that such person stands
mute by the act of God, the Court
shall remand the prisoner to Jail, and
shall not proceed against him or her
until he or she shall have recovered
thercfrom." The balance of the sec
ton provides for an entry of s'not
guilty." and trial in case the jury find
a pretended muteness. This is one
of the provisions of the old English
Common law, engrafted upon the
Ohio Criminal Code. We believe the
same applies in Pennsylvania. The
Judge, presiding at the trial of a case
of the kind, might cut the Gordian
knot by ruling that the prisoners
muteness was neither from the act of
God or the result of contumacy, and
so order the trial to proceed.-Cochoc-
ton Democrat.
Year: 1874

room, in the case that am using for


illustration. was floored, and had a
window containing six eight by ten
panes Of glass In the east wall. Below
the window was q plain wood table,
not too much secured to preserve the
grain of the wood, and upon it heap
of dried fish. A plate of barley cakes
not quito as tough as pine chips
| 1buckwheat cakes as bad have been
seen)--a bottle of liqnor which looked
as If it would be good stuff to load a
bombshell with-a saucer of grease
believed to go by an Icelandic name
which, if freely rendered into English
would be butter-and in striking con-
trast with all the rest, a mug that
would hold three pints. filed with
milk. The mug was clean and the
milk was good. This apartment boast-
ed of ornamental furniture, which was
in the form of four wooden chests,
large, light in color, and adorned with
paintings of vines, showing abundant
green leaves. 1t was quite clear that
these gay chests were not for travel
ing purposes, except in cases of emil
grafton that there is little encourage
ment TO contemplate. They are such
articles as baggage smashers would
rejoice over. While we enjoyed the
milk aud contemplated tt e dried fish
and the butter and bread and bottle,
the proprietor, who was, we are in
formed, a very well-to-do young man,
sat on box, with his everlasting Ice
landic slippers ofraw hide patting the
floor, towering shock of neglected
hair, and dirty nose. The Icelandic
luxury that seems most popular among
the men is snuff


The new Constitution will not do
much for IceIand's prosperity. In
deed, it is more likely to produce a
troublesome moral agitation than
material Development. The Danes
are not likely to allow the Icelanders
the reality of home rule, while the
passion for larger liberty that the
proclamation Of the Constitution must
produce is not in the nature of an
overwhelming anxiety for the peace
and perfect quiet. So Iceland is in
the way of having her long calm dis
tRrbed without assurances that the
happiest consequences will ensae.-
Still something of agitation will be
helpful rather than hurtful to her, for
there is no stronger definition of
death than everlasting stagn alton.
Year: 1874

The following rSmedy for driving
off rats and mice is cut from the local
column of the New Haven Register :
We get rid OF rats by putting potash
in their holes and runs. The poor
Wretches get it on their feet and over
ther fur, then they lick it, and do not
like the taste of it; it burns them
somewhat, and the more they see of
it the loss they like it, so they clear
out almost as soon as the application
is made. To get rid of mice we use
tartar-emetie mingled with any fav-
orite food they take it, take sick, and
take their leave.
Year: 1874

The parade and inspection Of the Fifth brigade
Second division, which took place at the Prospect
Park Parade Ground was concluded at ave
O'Clock yesterday afternoon and was one OF the
most satisfactory which has ever taken place in
the annals Of that brigade. The organizations
comprizng tine brigade are the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth regiments and the Fifteenth and
Twenty-eighth battaliOns OF infantry and the
separate troop. OF cavalry. they reached
the ground about eleven O'Clock in the
morning and the ranks OF the different
organizations were well filed. The men pre-
sented soldlerlike appearance and marched well.
At half-past eleven O'Clock General Dakin and
their position near the centre OF the parade
ground, and rom that point reviewed the troops
as they passed. The General and Inspector both
expressed their appreciation OF the appearances
and proficiency In drill and marching OF the
various organizations.
Year: 1874

In April last MISS Marie Wolf is said to have
made contract with the Concordia Society OF
Baltimore to appear and perform in any part OF
the United states, in any role assigned her. In a
short time af.er entering into this contract she,
a. alleged, informed the society that she was en-
gagged TO be married and could not leave this city,


1t being announced that she was about to appear
las New YORK theatre, application was made yes
terday TO Judge Robinson, holding Special Term OF
the Court OF Common Pleas, to restrain ner rom
1ullling any such engagement. 1t was set forth IN
the answer that the rough contract she signed
was different from the one submitted IN Court; !;
tnat no respectable actress would engage for "any
role - and that the understanding on her side was
that she was to appear as leading lady. Judge
Robinson took the papers reserviDg his decision.
Year: 1874

nually, from any source whatever, dur


ing the period, are to be applied to the
purpose OF redeeming the principal and
interest The bill provides that the
rights Of bondholders are to be cOnsid-
cred vested and inextingnishable, from
the date OF issue to that Of redemption.
The moneys in the sinking fund, under
the direction OF the governor, are to be
applied annually to the purchase Of
bonds at the lowest market price. A
further annual tax IL directed TO be lew
led Of - per cent, to pay interest on
the public debt, to be paid out by the
treasurer only ON the order Of the board. +"
Year: 1874

FrOm tne llILle ROCK AraLBte.i


OF the numerous measures that chal-
lenge the early attention Of the legisla-
ture, the more important is that Of de-
visiDg plan for putting the finances Of
the State upon a sound footing, and
thereby restoring the credit of the State
abroad. The credit OF every individual
in the community is affected abroad by
the financial reputation the State bears,
as every business man who has foreign
connections knows to his cost. When
the credit of the State is bad at home as
well as abroad, as is the case at the pres
ent juncture, the condition Of affairs is
sad indeed. The first thing TO be done
10 induce a recovery would naturally
seem TO be a move in the direction of
re-establisbing credit at home. Wecan-
not expect TO build up credit abroad un-
til we establish confidence at home.
The finance committee of the senate
seems to have taken this view of the
subject by the introduction of the bill
published in the Gazette, of Sunday
morning last, entitled "An act to pro-
vide means for paying the expenses of
the State government, and TO retire the
outstanding auditors warrants and treas
urer's certificates" This bill provides
for the creation OF State board of
finance, TO consist of the governor and
two persons chosen by the general as
sembly. The board is authorized to
have engraved coupon bonds of the de.
nomination Of one thousand dollars to
the amount Of two million five hundred
thousand dollars, payable in - years,
drawing interest - per cent. per an
mum, payable semi-annually either at
Little Rock or New York. The board
is authorized TO sell any Of the bonds ut
par for any auditors warrants or treas
uTer's certificates now outstanding, or
for currency at not less than - per
cent. discount. Whatever amount of
scrip is received In exchange for bonds
is 10 be destroyed, and whatever cash is
received for the sale of them is to be
placed in the treasury, to be used for the
expenses of the government exclusively,
to be appOrtioned by the board among
the various appropriations, so as best to
serve the interest Of the people. The
governor is authorized to mortgage any
Of the unsold lands Of the State,
except school lands and lands oc-
cupied by the public buildings, for
the security of the bonds. The lands to
be conveyed to trustees, with authority
TO sell at a not less price than - per
acre, the proceeds to form a sinking fund
for the redemption Of the lands. To Sc
cure the prompt payment of the cou-
pons, and the redemption Of the princi-
pal, it is further provided 'as a part of
the contract on which said bonds shall
be issued, and as an inviolable condition
thereof that until the principal and in
terest shall have been fully paid of, an
annual tax shall be levied and sat apart
sufficient for the purp0se--and the first
moneys received into the treasury an
Year: 1874

In marrying make your own match. DO
not marry any one to get rid of him, or to
oblige him, or to save him. The man who
would 20 to destruction without you would
quite likely 20 with you, and perhaps drag
you along Do not marry in haste, lest you
repent Mt leisure. DO not marry for home
and living, when by burning up your cor
sets and taking care oi your health you can
be- strong enough to earn your own living.
DO not let auntS, fathers, or mothers, sell you
for money or position into bondage. tears,
and lifelong misery, which you alone must
endure. DO not place yourself habitually
in the company OF amy suitOr till you have
decided the question of marriage human
wills are weak, and people often become be-
wildered, and do not know their error till it
is too late. Get away from their influence,
settle youl head, and make up yOur mind
alone. promise may be made in AN hour
Of hall-dclrious ecstacy which must be re-
deemed through years Of sorrow, toll and
pain. DO not trust your happiness in the
keeping Of one who has no heart, no head
no health. Beware of insane blood. DO
not rush thoughtessly, hastily, into welded
life, contrary to the counsel of your best
friends. Love can wait; that which cannot
wait is something of very different char
acter.
Year: 1874

it can all be summed up in the few words
il is good enough.


In regard TO colorlng butter, am free to
say that | think it pays during the winter
and until the COWS 60 out to grass in the
spring, Think less coloriug is required
when cows are fed on hay, bright cornstalks,
and meal, than when they have nothing but
hay. There is such thing as cOloring too
much. do not like white batter, but l
would sooner eat it than some which l have
seen in market which was too highly col
ored, and looked as if mixed with q guam
tity of dirty yellow paint. For coloring
use nothing but carrots. l have no doubt
that other articles are good, but | go on the
principle Zone, by the way, which have
learned by pretty severe experienced of let
ting i0eH enough alone. When have
something which l knoW to be all right
every way i do not 60, and am not going,
to any trouble or expense to try to get
something little better Carrots give a
good color, it is but little work TO prepare
them, they do not impart bad taste to the
butter, and there is nothing injurious about
them. They can be raised with little-troub-
lie and no money out except for seed.
think it pays to grow them even if they are
not wanted for butter, for they are valuable
to feed to COWS or horses, and will also bring
a good price in market.


MASSACHUSETTS FARMRR.


amherst, Mass.
Year: 1874

price. We have already offered in the mar
ket the different qualities oil spring butter
some very 6ne, showing great care in it
manufacture, some medium, some very poor
The fine butter is usually oolored with oraug,
carrot, which adds to the favor of the but
ter, while aunattO, and all liquid coloring oI
which | have any knowledge are injurious
and detract from the favor OF the butter
This may not be so perceptible to the dairy
men, who usually sell their butter immedi
ately on packing, as il is to those who keel
the butter longer and send it to market
especially when the weather is warm.-St
Adams Advertiser.
Year: 1874

Jennie June in recent letter very sensi-
bly, says that every year the evidences in
crease of = more general and extended eul-
ture among women, and this greatly and ad-
vantAgsously influences their dress. An alb
sorbinR love Of dress Is simply assign OF gem
eral emptiness of mind and heart, which
gladly fills the vacuum with whatever can be
made To do tho most service in hiding the
vaouIty of the individual. Cultivate the
heart and occupy the brain better, and dress
will take its secondary aud proper place in
the estimation OF women. That is to say.
it will simply be considered in its relations
to other things; position, personal require
uIents, health. and not as independent of or
superior in its claims to all these.
Year: 1874

Many persons suppose that gardening us
q pleasure, is u merely optional thing, and
not question with which conscience has
anything to do; but there is a right and
wrong to most questions, and to me it seems
that not to have a garden, whore 1t is prac-
ticable, and not to have plants in the house,
which is almost always practicable, il neg
lecting to make use of Il very important
means of mental and moral culture.


One may love flowers, and enjoy them as
they grow under the care of other hands !;
but plants are like children; they tell their
secrets only to those who show their love by
doing something for them; and the more
one does, so it be done for love, tho more
secrets one hears and sees.


began to cultivate my garden merely as
All amusement, but found it true recrea-
ton. began thinking only of cultivating
IL and, to my surprise, found it immediate
ly began to cultivate me. 1 have found
health. recreation, and mental culture in
my garden; and write my experience III
the hope that it may draw others to seek the
same blessings from the same source.


A mother would find an hour day spent

among her flowers n very useful preparation
for the hours she spends with her children.
1t is great mistake, too often made by
mothers, that hours spent apart from the
cares in which their families involve them
are stolen hours, to which they have scarce
right. Apart from the instruction to be
derived from the tending OF plants, the re-
taxation of the mind from care past and its
recreation for care to come renew the life
OF the mind, and through that the life of the
body; SO that more would be accomplished
In the hours that arc left than if one had
not been taken from them. Do not, then,
If you are mother with many cares, deny
yourself the pleasure and benefit of plants
because you think you have not time Tor
them.-frOn Mrs. Wares "Tho,tghts in My
Garden"
Year: 1874

Although have not had an extensive
experience in dairy matters yet have had


excellent opportunities for observation aud
have attempted to keep posted on subjects
connected with them. As several of your
correspondents have expressed their opinions
and preferences in regard to churnS and also
the cOloring of butter | have concluded to
add my mite of information on these points,


have used the Blanchard Churn No. A,
for about year and half aud it gives
perfect satisfaction. 1t is by far the best
churn ever had and | do not see how 1t
could be improved. 1t is we'll made aud in
this respect is very much superior to many
other kinds. 1t is also easily washed, an
item which the ladies particularly appre-
ciate. might say great deal more but
Year: 1874

AS the season for making butter has al
ready commenced, perhaps a few hints to
tho dairymen OF this county may be product
i've of good results. That there has been a
very great improvement in the manufacture


of butter during the past ten years cannot
be denied that there is still room for great
improvement is equally true. am not Mr..
Editor, practical butter maker, but have
been in the habit of buying aud sending but
ter to market for about thirty years aud |
propose in this very brisi article TO point
out some of the defects in butter which pre-
vent dairymen from obtaining the highest
Year: 1874

We have received a most singularly
formed corn-cOb hand, grown last year on
the farm of Henry Miller, in Big Bottom,
between Duck and Tennessee Rivers. 1t is
almost perfect resemblance of the left
hand of man with the middle finger a
little deficient. The facts connected with
the history Of this hand are as singular aud
wonderful as its formation. Before the corn
was planted last year, John Warren was
shellng corn on shelter in the field, and
got his middle finger badly mashed, so that,
after suffering greatly for some time, he had
to have it taken of at the second joint.
1t bled profusely on the ground around
where stood the corn-shsller. Things were
cleared away and the corn planted, aud
when it began to grow up, John Warren,
with his sore hand in sling, land it is not
yet entirely well,) engaged in blowing the corn
single handed. When the corn matured, Just
on the knoll, where a few months before
stood the corn-sheller, and flowed the blood
from the wounded hand, they pulled from a
stalk this wonderful "corn-cob hand" which
shows clearly a hand whose muscles are all
racked with pain, demonstrating, to our
mind, the wonderful sympathy of the South
ern soil for the hand that cultivatss. The
cob hand will be sent, by special request, to
the Grand International Exposition at Vi
emma, and the Centennial at Philadelphia,
as the ninth wonder of the wOrld.-B Rural
Sun.


They call those ears "bear's feet" this
way, and plenty Of manure aud a wet sea.
son will produce them abundantly without
the use of blood FROM a bears foot, or a
mans hand. We think the fool who wrote
the above article would be a much greater
success shown at tho Exposition as the "ninth
wonder Of the world" than such corn cob
as he tells about
Year: 1874

wish to inquire through the columns of
your paper what will cure the disease known
as scab in sheep. There are some that have
it in my neighborhood. If any of your read
ers know OF u remedy they will confer fa-
vor by communicating it through the FARM
ER. II. z. KING.


Sheffield w.
Year: 1874

JOD 1hlN 4
Plain and Fancy
PLAIN AND FANCY
PLAIN AND FANCY
PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRINTING
JOB PRINTING


JOB PRINTING


JOB PRINTING


JOB PRINTING
Printing in COlors
PRINTING IN COLoRS
PRINTING IN COLORs
PRINTING IN COLoRs
PRINTING IN CoLoRs
Year: 1874

ENerybody is wondering why The BAZAAR
Is selling their goods so cheap. The reason IN
they must clear out their Spring and sum
o,cr goods to make room for the immense
stock of Fall and Winter goods which they
will So0D receive. n
Year: 1874

Now 60 to the bedroom, and
from the door absorb it with your
eyes, for never have you seen pic
ture more complete. The walls,
the hangings and the seats are all in
pale blue satin (she is fair), edged
sparingly with velvet of the same
shade, and embroidered daintily
with moss resebuds, swathed in still
paler yellow leaves. But this des-
cription, though exact, gives no idea
of the effect produced by that wond-
rous tissue of the incredible effect Of
delicacy and thorough feminine ele-
gance which il sheds around. The
room is filled with vague, floating
grace; its very detail is combined
to aid and sustain the almost fairy
aspect it presents. The bed is
shrouded in thickly y>wadded satin
curtains, inside of which hang others
made of muslin SO vigorously filmy
that its folds seem almost mist, the
coverlet, which hides the lace.trim.
med sheets and pillows, as in blue
satin, lined with elder down, and
covered with the same veil of floating
white, hanging down in q deep
fiounce over the woodwork Of the
bed. The toilet table is the same
a nesting maze of transparency and
lace, with blue beneath,o % and knots
and streamers of mingled satin and
velvet round. On the chimney
piece stand a clock and candlestick
of Sewers china. The piano is in
pale 6ois do rose mot rosewood,
which is very different substance,)
inlaid with plates of painted Sewers
to match. At night light comes from
above, where hangs lamp of Sewers
again. In our day, with our active
ideas and actual wants, such rooms
as these are typical, they represent
the highest form of realization of
modern taste without its faults, or
rather with as little Of them as is
consistent with the expenditure of SO
much money and 80 much thought.
In these rare vases, vanity seeks for
another satisfaction than that of
glare, but vanity is at the bottom all
the same the only difference is that
it is accompanied by true sense Of
art