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Year: 1870

at will be observed that, while there Is general In
crease the live stock the number Of sheep in 1870 Is
less by one million two hundred and twenty thousand
than in 1863.


"The figures Of former years exhibit still greater
Ioss In 1896 there were in the State OF Ohio mil


Ors OF sheep and the number steadily Increased TIL IN
the Summer Of 1868, when there were 165oSo Inc de
crease in the number OF sheep mas theLeIoFe, peen
2G36,Sl7 in three years, or more than tnIytree per


The fact ia for two years wool growing has been
losing busness and we are assured that last year largo
numbers of sold their ocks for the bare price OF
the hides and tallow. , 49,, .,
a duty high that it has scarcely produced sufficient
revenue to pay the cost OF coeftng whcH haY ts
hope legitimate commerce and which &E & tbase Of
Europe who able to purchase fine wool at low rates


Comments by The Tribune.


If there is section Of Ohio wherein the
farmers give away good Mutton, considering it
of no value, we will thank The Post to lndi-
cate that section. Mutton is favOrite food
with us, as with many others; and we are ac-
customed to pay twenty to thirty cents per
pound for it. There are not less than Hall
Million people in this City who would like to
buy it at a price that would pay all charge
and give the Ohio farmers at least five cents
net per pound for it. If this be the fact, why
is Mutton of no value in 0hiO2 And why
should not that be a capital State for poor
folks to livein? We guess all the Mutton parted
with on such terms by the farmers of Ohio
has been that which the dogs have taken
without leave.


But there are fewer Sheep in Ohio than
there were whence it is inferred that their
production is no longer profitable. 80, very
much less Wheat is grown in that State than
formerly-the farmers finding more profitable
use for their soil. In other words: Wheat
growing has travelled westward from its
ancient seats, and is still on the march; and
the same is true of Sheep-grOwing. Wool may
be transported from central Minnesota or Iowa
to the scaboard for less than five per cent.
of it's value while land and fodder are cheaper
there than in Ohio Sheep multiply in the
newer States and grow fewer in Ohio. That
would be the case under any tariff.


The duties on Wool imported are high, yet
there is little or no smuggling, Wool being too
bulky. Wool is higher to-day in this country
than in any other, while Woolens are quite
cheap. Our manufacturers, says The Post
"cannot compete with those in Europe,
" WhO are able to purchase fine Wool at lOso
"rateS." In other words: Our farmers are re-
ceiving exceptionally high prices for their
Wool. IT, then, our farmers cannot afford to
grow Sheep at these rates, what will they do
when The Post shall have succeeded in making
Wool free of duty2 If they now sell their
Sheep for the value of their hides and tai
low must they not then throw in the talOw at
least?
Year: 1870

Trial Trip of the James Gordon bennett, No. g.


An Able, speedy and Comfortable Graft.


Friday morning last, with the entire crew OF the
boat and goodly number Of prominent citizens Of
New York and Brooklyn as guests, among them be-


ing two or three naval architects and pilot boat pud
ers Of reputation, this craft started trial trip
from pier No. 10 East river. Down the bay
and past Sandy Hook the trip was continued, and
OF until late hour in the afternoon was there q
wish expressed TO return to the city. 1t Is seldom
the good fortune of those who desire to test boat
of this character TO have such opportunity as
presented this crew, they met with still breezes
calm and heavy squall. aud the result although an
ticipated was very sat Tactory as the boat proved
herself OF great stability speed and comforts able TO
a degree. During the afternoon, alter the labor Of
the day had been attended to, and 1t conclusive
that this the latest production OF Messrs. laurence
& Fouikes was q success, the harmony Of the
victory was kindly blended In exI ressions OF con-
gratulations. Seldom, among the legion OF such
trips, does one begin and end so ausp clously as
this The guests were pleased, the crew We're happy
and Captain Chapman in ecstacles. The James
Gordon Bennett win begin her great work early next
week In going to sea on her initial cruise.
Year: 1870

FrOnn tIt JtWIsN IIMts May To


The ethical and moral basis OF civilization since
nearly 1000 years has been nothing more nor less
than the grand and sublime principles on which the
Jewish religion rests and the dissemination OF which
Is the grand mission OF the jewish people.
Though ''New Testament mas been foisted
on the Old Testament yet the coniessors
Of the new dspensation" themselves acknowledge
Year: 1870

Rev. T. W. White writes the central Presbyterian
that two years in Arkansas have wrought wonder
fnl changes in his views on many subjects. No
ministers "are wanted in the State but men Of de-
voted piety, accurate knowledge of human nature
untiring zeal and thorough devotion the Masters
cause A large portion OF salaries is paid by
men OF the world, and when this Is The case they
must see and know the man before they will con-
tribute anything towards his support There are
now vacant four fields, any one OF which would sup
port minister.
Year: 1870

CHRoMo LITHoGRAPHISG.- direct the
attention OF Our readers this morning, to
the advertisement of Messrs. Brett, Fair
child & Co., of No. ll6 Fulton street, New
York, in which the business men of this city
are informed that they can get any kind OF
the above named work done cheaply and
with dispatch by them. We lately had the
pleasure Of visiting this really model itho
graphing establishment, and can vouch for
the facts that Messrs. Brett, Fairchild q
Co., set forth in their advertisement. They
have first class artists in every branch and
are at all times prepared to attend to orders
for all kinds Of chrome or plain lithograph,
ing, no matter what may be required. We
really think that our merchants and manu-
facturers would find it to their interest to
communicate with them.
Year: 1870

fish, and the table is profusely supplied,
but it is evident that the cook never heard
of Ude or SOyer. The rooms are capable of
accommodating large number OF guests,
there being over one hundred boarding
there at present. The numerous guests
meet, necessarily, only at meals, and as the
families are lodged each in it's own cot
tage, each is at as much liberty to choose con-
genial society, as persons who live In any
country village The place has the charac
ter of being exceedingly healthy, and it is a
saying among the permanent residents that
any one wishing to die must go elsewhere
to effect their purpose. The great draw
back is the mosquitoes, which, IN certain
conditions Of the wind, are poured upon
the island, and remain till the wind shifts
to the right quarter.


Healthy as Grand Isle is with its very supe-
rior facilities for bathing, the excellence and
plentifulness of the fish and oysters, and the
quantity of excellent fruit that can be raised
there, there is no doubt that the place, with
improvements and proper management,
would become the principal watering place
in the South.


Early Monday morning, the steamer hav-
ing, by the rise OF water, been enabled to
come to the wharf, we started on the return
trip, to the number of some forty, and
doubtless to the great grief of as many
hundreds of mosquitoes. The breeze was
fresh, the GOODNESS delightful contrast to
the voyage on Saturday. The trip was en-
livened by the addition to the company of
Spanish mackerel, who Oincautiously jumped
aboard the steamer, and was captured by
passenger, before he could retrieve his mis-
take He paid the penalty of his folly, like
Guatamozin, on the grid-iron. A young
alligator was the only being OF his kind
descerned on either trip. Something had
appeared to tickle his Imagination, for as he
half reclined on log, he was smiling ex-
tensiyely.


We have learned that Mr.. j. H. Harvey,
in connection with gentleman of capital,
is now negotiating for site on the island
whereon to build tirst-class hotel, capable
of accommodating at least six hundred per
sons: and there is every prospect that the
negotiation will be brought to a favorable
issue Mr. Harvey then proposes to build
an iron steamer of very light draught, capa-
BILE OF comfortably accommodating two hum
dred passengers. 1t is intended to build
such steamer for rate of speed to make
the voyage to Grand Isle in less than eight
hours, and to, make trips every day, and
from the light draught attained the vessel
can at all stages of water, go direct to the
wharf. instead of resOrting to the present
uncomfortable method of Hghtering.
Should the project here named be success
full. and the necessary stock be taken, it is
expected that the enterprise will be in sue
cessful operation as early as next May.
Year: 1870

Not few farmers feed corn in the ear,
and some even raw potatoes, to their fat
tening swine. One-half would probably
be an under estimate of the loss by this
easiest but most slovenly and costly prac-
tice.


A largo number mix dry meal with
cold water or slops, and Immediately feed
it to their hogs. The loss in this case is
not as much as in feeding the corn un--
ground, but it cannot be less than from
fifteen to twenty-five per cent.


Still others cook their meal with their
potatoes, both thoroughly, completely mix
ing the one with the other, and then ad-
ding to the conglomerate water sufficient
to make thick mush, present it to the
grati6ed and hearty eaters. thereby saving
nearly all the fat producing value con-
tanned in the grain and the potatoes.


For several years we have adopted this
plan, Everything fed to our hogs, while
tattening, is cooked but nothing is ground.
To one bushel and half of potatoes (mash-
ed) we add three pecks of dry corn in the
kernel, and then with liberal supply Of
water in kettle almost steam-tight we
cook for at least three or four hours. The
kernels are then three or four times their
original size and the potatoes are mush.-
and when thoroughly mixed the dish is as
acceptable as can be presented to lot of
fattening hogs And as every particle of
food is Cor can beg reduced to paste by
the slightest mastication, much more by
the action of the stomach, there can be-
little if any loss.


The advantages arc, that you save the
time of taking your grain to the mill, the
toll, and having your grain always at hand
in proper condition to use; there is a
steadiness about the food that is one of the
main elements of success in feeding ami
mails.


An addition of few quarts of rye and
an occasional peck of oats, making little.
variety, is always a judicious plan; either
of which are as easily cooked as heavier
and lighter kernels of corn.
Year: 1870

The Massachusetts, State Board of Ag-.
riculture discussed this subject at their
meeting in December, 1867, as we find in
the report of that body for 1868. The
speakers were all men of high character.
mature years, experienced in breeding,
keeping and fattening cattle, most of them
engaged in the dairy business-and there
was, but little difference of opinion as to
the use and value of food cooked in some
way. Professor Agassiz, the illustrious
naturalist, shows in the following cloar.
plain, and unmistakable language, the rea-
sons why food for domestic animals should
be pr, pared, it being promised that the
food We give our stock is not that which
nature provides at first hands, but is dried
and mechanically altered in many ways
Soaking or steaming restores to its wonted
bulk and succuence; and as Professor
Agassiz said of this mode of preparing
food in general: 1T must save the Sc
cretion of saliva to an enormous extent,
and therefore relieve the animal from -
physiological labor which is very manifest
have no doubt that must be the chief
source of relief to the cattle, because dry
food must be softened in order to be di-
gested; and it must be done by the Sc
cretions of the mouth-by the secretory
surfaces of the alimentary canal-and, in
fact, by all the secretory surfaces of the
digestive apparatus.


Now, where does that como from From
the blood and if you supply the food so
far softened that the animal is relieved
from that physiological labor, you place
your animal in much better condition
for his work. have no doubt that there
is the explanation of your resuts-that
your steam performs a part Of the opera
ton which your animal has to do itself by
its secretion"
Year: 1870

REMEDY FOR CANcER.-Col. Ussery, Of
the Paris Desoto, informs the editor of
the Caddo Gazette that he fully tested a
remedy for the troublesome disease re-
commended to him by Spanish woman,
a native of the county. The remedy is
this: Take an egg and break it, pour out
the white, retaining the yolk in the shell,
put in salt and mix with the yolk as long
as it will receive it; stir them together
until the salve is formed put portion
of this on piece of sticking plaster and
apply it to the cancer about twice a day.
He has tried the remedy twice in his own
family with entire success.


1t has also been tried on two cases in
Rhode Island with perfect success. Such
a remedy is within the reach of every one,
and should be known to the whole world.
Year: 1870

CHARCOAL FOR HoRsEs' WIND.-"Many
years ago, l recollect," says correspon-
dent of London paper, "a horse being
brought into the yard of Joseph Bignal
celebrated man for keeping hunters at
Croydon. The horse was much affected
in the wind. and could hardly move from
distress. In few days this animal did
his regular work as hunter, with perfect
ease and comfort to itself. Tar water was
the cure. Tar is carbon, and charcoal is
also carbon charcoal in the powder is
more easily given than tar water. have
tried it with most beneficial effect, and l
think it stands to reason that the removal
of noxious grasses and fatulence from the
stomach of the horse must improve his
wind and condition. Tar is frequently
given with benefit in case of chronic dis
eases of the respiratory organs; but its
effects are totally different from those pro-
duced by charcoal (carbon.")
Year: 1870

A Nevada paper notices beautiful
cube of salt, natural production of that
State. The cube is two and half inches
long, two inches broad, and one and a
half inches thick 1t is as transparent as
a plate of fine glass, and the small print
of paper may be easily read through it.
Nearly in the centre of the cube there is
a small cavity, in which there is held i'm
prisoned drop of water, which moves as
the block is moved to the right or left as
the globule of spirit moves in level
Year: 1870

Josh Billings was asked, How fast
does sound travel p and his opinion is
that it depends good deal upon the noise
you are talking about. The sound of n
dinner horn, for instance, travels half a
mile in second, while an invitation to
get up in the morning have known to
be quarters of an hour going up pair
of stairs and then not have strength left
to be heard
Year: 1870

AS a matter of information to the
public and in answer to numerous in
quiries, Assessors of Internal Revenue
furnish the following,


Parties wishing to engage in distill-
ing fruit must give notice to the AS
SCISSOR on blank made for that pur-
pose.


He must also give bond in amount
not less than $500.


He must pay special tax of $50 a
year, commencing May /, or at that
rate for "a fractional part of the year.
He must pay so cents on the gallon,
and must also pay 81 per barrel on all
over 100 barrels produced in a year.


He must keep a book in the form
provided by the Revenue Department,
in which he keeps account of the
hours of labor, the kind, quantity and
condition of fruit used, and the exact
amount of spirits produced during the
day.


He must report on the 25th Of each
month the amount of spirits mace,
when the Collector orders it gauged
and stamped, Mt which time the distil-
Ter pays the tax Of50 cents per gallon.


These are the general requirements,
besides many other more minute,
which will be explained ifthe parties
will call ut the Assessors officer.
Year: 1870

The Central Miss. Star after graph
ically depicting the light and shade
of political distinctions, concludes a
very clever article with this excellent
advice:


We We're born a Whig, raised n
Wing, and in feelings are stfll n Whig.
AS n Wing we feel the same aversion
to the name of Democracy that once
stirred our heart in happier days.
But it is "not that love Caesar less,
but Rome more.n Our only hope is
in the Democratic party, and even as
we write, the sound of Democratic
victories is borne to our ears.


Bad rs the Democratic party may
he in the eyes of "Old Line Whigs,n ~
still it is n saint in comparison to the
Mongrcls who now disgrace our Leg
islative Councils. Not as Wings, not
rs Democrats, but as white men who
would preserve their State from dis
honor, their property from pillage,
their race from negro domination,
keep invlOlate their purity of race
and preserve the domestic temple
from the desecration of social equality.
We say TO you unite! Forget The
Rustv UNIlE!!!
Year: 1870

Men, in their inmost souls, feel


more than women can, the change
which comes over the world, when


the publicity they know and feel in
their own lot, comes to turn the whole
race out of doors. They themselves
live now in the reverence, admiration
and love they feel for the delicate, the
private, the domestic nature of wo-


men. They forsce the shrine where
they worship profaned; they feel the


bosoms where they are warmed grow
ing hard and cold. They see the
" homes" where alone their public
cares are soothed and made tolerable,
converted into disprivacied parts OF
the great hotel of life. They hear al
ready the sweet harmony of different
voices dying away in n monotonOus
unison. They feel the romance, the
poetry, the sentiment of life oOzing
out under the blows aimed at the
chief hoop which binds the slaves of
society together; and they know that
woman without their consent Is about
10 discrown herself Queen of her own


home, in order to usurp barren
scepter in the kingdom of public life.
III Is Idle TO warn, prophecy, to COM
plain. The fruits of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil are fair
To the woman's eye, rs of old and
the tempter Is no less n serpent but
though we shall still go doubtless
hand in hand with the modern Eve,
when she eXpel5 herself from the
gardens of Gods own planting; we
know better than she the charm of
Paradise which we shall lose together,
and the cOldness and emptiness of all
that lies outsidel It IA only some di-
vine interposition that can avert the
mad domination that does not mind
running man, in r;lshly protesting
against the fiat which made humans
ity, male and female.-H W. Bet
tors, IN Oll and NGW,
Year: 1870

from the N. Y. Commercial and Financial


Chrouicle.1


Probably the important staple OF
tobacco has not in many years occu-
pied position attended with so many
uncertainties as now, both with re-
gard to prices and the future demand
at home and abroad. The natural
effect of reduced production, such as
we have had the past season, Is, OF
course, to enhance prices; but how
high the tobacco quotations can be
carried without so far curtailing con-
sumption as to compensate for the
diminished supply, Is a question upon
which, during the next few months,
some new light may be thrown. A
fair estimate of the crops of tobacco
which are now in process OF being
marketed, are about as follows:
Year: 1870

DIABOLICAL MURDERs.-New Lon
don adviceS give the particulars OF a
tiabolical series of murders at Den
ham, a small village two miles from
Uxbridge, in a small cottage occupi-
ed by an engineer named Marshall
and his family. Marshall was seen
at work in his shop late on the Sat
urday night of May 2Ist, and nothing
further was seen Of the family until
Monday evening when two men burst
open the door of the cottage, and be-
held a CHASTITY sight. Three child
ren with. nothing on but their night
gowns were lying in the corner Gov
cred with blood, their brains having
evidently been dashed out with a
sledge hammer, found near. In the
next room the bodies of two women
were discovered, similarly maltreat
ed. One was Marshall's wife and the
other his sister, who was to have been
married the day before. Marshall
was found in his working dress in the
work shop, with his head and face
slashed in fearful manner and GOV
cred with sacking. At first it was
supposed that Marshall killed the fam
lily and then committed suicide, but
the doctors decide from the position
of his body that he could not have
done it. Nothing was taken from tht
house.
Year: 1870

Here is a story which Mr.. Spurgeon
tells:


When | was a very small boy, in
pinafores, and went to a woman'S
school, it SO happened that | wanted
a slate pencil, and had no money to
buy it with. | was afraid of being
scoldcd for losing my pencils so often,
for | was q real careless little fellow,
and so did not dare to ask at home !;
what, then, was to do? There was
little shop in the place, where nuts,
and tops, and cakes, and balls, were
sold by old Mrs. DearSon, and some
times had seen boys and girls get
trusted by the old lady. I argued
with myself that Christmas was com
inc, and that somebody or other wo'd
be sure to give me a penny then, and
perhaps a whole silver sixpence. |
would, therefore, 60 into debt for a
slate pencil, and be sure to pay at
Christmas. | did not feel easy about
it, but still | screwed my courage up,
and went into the shop. One farthing
was the amount; and as had never
owed anything before, and my credit
was good, the pencil was handed over
by the kind dame, and was in debt.
1t did not please me much, and | felt
as if had done wrong; but | little
knew how soon | should smart for it.
How my father came to hear of this
little stroke of business | never knew,
but some little bird or other whistled
it to him, and he was very soon down
upon me in right earnest. God bless
him for it: he was a sensible man, and
none of your children spoilers; he did
not intend to bring up his children to
speculate, and play at what big rogues
call fnanciering, and therefore he
knocked my getting into debt on the
head at once, and no mistake. He
gave me very powerful lecture upon
getting into debt, and how like it was
to stealing, and upon the way in which
people were ruined by it, and how 8
boy who would owe a farthing, might
owe hundred pounds, and get into
prison, and bring his family into dis
grace. 1t was a lecture, indeed;
can hear it now, and can feel my ear;
tingle at the recollection of it. Their
was marched off to the shop like &
deserter marched into barracks, cry
ing bitterly down the street, and feel
ing dreadfully ashamed, because
thought everybody knew was in debt
{ The farthing was paid amid many
solemn warnings, and the poor debtor
was set free, like bird out of cage
How sweet it felt to be out of debt


How did my little heart VOW and de
clare that nothing should ever temp
me into debt again 1t was a fin,
lesson, and I have never forgotten it
Year: 1870




BAD BLoOD.-Of bad blood, Halls
Journal of Health says:


Draymen about breweries drink
quarts, if not gallons, of beer every
day, and by the time they are forty
FIVE, the commonest scratch of a pin
on the hand will not get well for
months; if the skin is abraded or
scraped off by a misstep or other ac-
cident, a running sore is sometimes
established for the remainder of life;
it is because the blood is bad; it is
poor, too thick, and even poisonous.


Persons have poor blood when it
is observed that scratches and cuts
and bruises are a long time in heal
ing, and this should be a friendly warn
inC to correct that condition of things,
because it shows there is but little
vitality, little stamina, and disease of
some kind is impending, especially of
the typhoid type, and recovery will
be slow, doubtful, and in many cases
not possible.


The first step to be taken in all Ca
ses to get rid of bad blood, is to
spend large portion of daylight out
of doors in remunerative labor or
agreeable employment, or in journey
ing, on horseback being the best; this
helps nature to work the bad blood
out of the body, and the same time
gets up good appetite and a vigo-
rous digestion, which makes pure
blood to supply the place Of the bad,
and the man is well, without an atom
of medicine or dollars expense.