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Year: 1873

Place piece of iron or steel in damp
ashes, and it will soon corrode with rust.
Place iron or steel in lime mortar, and
it will remain bright and the rust will
disappear. Sow small grain where
brush pile or log heap has been burned,
or where a liberal dressing of ashes has
been applied, and there will be rank
growth that will probably fail and never,
mature Sow grain where lime has been
applied to the soil, and the grain will
grow with stout, stiff straw, and plump,
hardy heads that mature we'll.


Ashes cause a rank growth of herbac-
ceous parts of plants, such as leaves,
straw, and grass; lime induces growth
of the woody part of plants, and the
grain or fruit Ashes stimulate heavy
muck, and rich or virgin soils. They
seem to act specially on vegetable mold
and manures from the barnyard. Apply
to the most offensive pile of compost,
and they will render inodorous and
worthless as fertilizer, their effect be-
ing that of releasing the ammonia from
the compost Ashes used with COM
post heap of decaying vegetable matter


would be wasted-worse than wasted
as they render the compost inert as


fertilizer. Applied to an offensive sink


sewer, or cess-pool, they serve an excel


lent purpose as disinfectant. They pro


mote the growth of grass and forage


especially, proving very valuable on low


lands; will stimulate trees, etc., to Wig


orous growth when the soil is strong


They exhaust strong soils and injur'
poor ones.


Lime improves poor soils, especially
sandy ones, by rendering them NOR
compact and capable of retaining fertili
ty when applied. As a promoter o
health and vigor of apple trees, it is on
of the best applications that can be mad
to the soil. Under its influence tree
are freer from disease. Lime may b
applied with benefit on most soils an
many plants, but it is of special valu
to the apple tree and strawberry plants
D while ashes are valuable for heavy @
rich soils for the grosser feeding ofplant
: such as our native plums and currar
l bushes.-Cor. Horticultural
Year: 1873

To the poorer classes, cents are of the
same value as dollars are to those of the
wealth. er classes. However the capital
ist may be embarrassed by the panic, he
certainly has a suficiency of small
change to pay his way in the dealings
with those persons whose utmost claims
are only few dollars. We consider the
language of the Tribune as being spoken
at right time, and in the right manner.
And we indorse every word of it. Pan
les are bad enough without making them
siupendous pretexts for Withholding the
pittances that are due to those who have
no credit with which to sustain them
selves in obtaining the daily necessariei
of life.
Year: 1873

A young Boston physician yesterday
set an example which, if followed, would
soon deprive US Of some of the medical
faculty. The young man had mistaken
the nature of case which he was called
in to treat, and in consequence the
patient died. 1t was really not matter
concerning which he need have troub-
led himself, since the patient died OF
laudanum taken for suicidal purposes
Nevertheless, the young physician was
so annoyed by his mistake that he de
liberately killed himself, and went tc
explain the matter to his patient in an
other world. If all other physician
who make mistakes in their diagnoses
should subsequently commit suicide
what lively business the coroner
would do, and how rapidly the medica
faculty would become as extinct as tn
devastating ichthyosaurus or the solemn
and stupid dodo.
Year: 1873

The farmers of California have an
other monopoly to complain of. They
represent in petition to the legislature,
which has been numerously signed, that
all the inland waters in the State, avail
able for the purpose of irrigation, are
under the control of private corpora
tions or confederated capital in some
form, and they ask that the waters OF
the Commonwealth be made as free to
the use of all ~ the air.
Year: 1873

Especially, who have become the victims Of
Solitary Vice. and dreadful and destructive
habits which annually sweep to an untimely
grave thousands of young men of the most e1-
allied talents and brilliant intellect who might
otherwise have entranced listening Senstes with
the thunders of eloquence, or walked to eXtac.
the living Tyre, may call with full confidence.
Year: 1873

Emulous, when several lives were lost
the steamer PaetOus, from this city
bound for st. Johns, New Brunswick,
and the Philadelphia ship Hezekiah
Williams. There are two lighthouses
on this island, each distant two miles,
one to the east and the other to the west
Of Lebear bar: but these are, of course,


NO PROTECTION IN THE DAYTIME
or in foggy weather and fog hours, bells,
or steam whistles had not been placed
there to warn approaching vessels of
their danger. In the present instance it
is said that although the vessel was 80
near the shore that one might almost
have tossed a biscuit on it, yet the fog
was so dense that the land could not
be seen. Captain Sheridan, submarine
diver, Of this city, has charge of the
JOB Of recovering the goods from the
ship.
Year: 1873

soxs memb bers OF the legislature now
n session in Charleston, seem to think
hat they have at their command
treasury that, like the widows cruise
OF oil, is rerpetually renewed and al
ways full no matter how much had
been drawn from it. Itwould be de-
lightful thing to have a purse that could
rever be mptied and that would yield
cash in payment Of all demands but
these fortunes belong to the iancItul
characters who lived in 1.-The Arabian
Nights" aud who were blessed lar
above the average run o. mortals OF the
present day. We would be very glad in-
deed to build turnpikes over ell the
mountains of West Virginia and bridges
over all the streams, and wherever
railroads would be preferred to turn
pixies it would afford Us the utmost
pleasure to build them aud put them
in running order and transport lumber
srd coal and other products without cost
10 the producers. We would be glad
indeed to have control OF an inersusts
b!. treasury and thus bring West Vir-
ginia to the front as the best place in the
world for remuuerative investment, but,
after all, the truth must be told that the
State Treasury is empty aud that all
project for local improvement must
submit to the stern fac: that The money
= wanting.


In view Of all the circumstances We
cannot find fault with the banks for
lheir refusal 10 sanc;iou tie wildcat
scheme Of the legislature aud their un-
willingness to furnish money for every
local improvement scheme that is
brought forward, If anybody in these
modern days had the purse di FoRTU- =
NAIUs, sll these Improvements could
be effected and everybody would be
happy. That they are not SO now is
due to the fact that the fairies have
los; their power aud we live in prsc-
rical end work-day world-wherc no
money is to be expended but that
which has been properly collected and
g already in band.
Year: 1873

PROBABILITY
THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS ON THE sUBJEcT-So


NEED OF IMMEDIATE EAPPROPRTArIONS-PREs


SURE OF BUSINESS BEFORE BOTH HOUSES.


fBY TELEGRAPH 70 THE TRIBUSg.l


WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-ft is stated that the Presi.
dent remarked to members of Congress who waited
upon him. yesterday, at his room IN the Capitol that
in case more OF the appropriation blls should
fail for want Of time this session, and an extra se-
sion should thus become necessary he would not call
it until some time in the early part of June There
would be no necessity Of an earlier meeting he said.
because the appropriations for the present fiscal
year ran until the Goth Of June.


The President desires, doubtless that the extra
session. if there must be One shall not interfere with
his contemplated tour in the Southern States. Ii -
possible. also that there is political motive IN de-
laying the assembling Of the new Congress until the
present fever for Investigations shall have time to
subside little, ana until the oppressive heat Of a
Washington Summer makes an early adjournment
probable.


LEADING members Of both Houses begin 10 fear
that it viii be impossible to finish the Appropriation
bills before the 4th of March. The Senate has not
yet addressed itself with any earnestnc5s TO the
necessary work Of legislation, and the House Is con-
suming a great deal Of precious time in unimportant
business The reports Of the two Credit Mobller
Committees remain undisposed Of, and no one can
tell how much time they will take.


Besides. the proper disposition Of the Louisiana
case will take week; the Caldwell ease may oc-
cupy several DAYS in the Senate, and the Mormon
bill cannot be disposed of in less than two OF three
da by that body. The Pomeroy report and the
Morrill, Credit Mobilier report may require consid-
cradle time. while none Of the heavy Appropriation
bills have been considered The Senate still meets
at noon and has held no night sessions and it seems
as though the majority were willing TO have Con
gress called together again.
Year: 1873

credit The moral view Of the question should be
considered, and the question asked: Cannot the
Indian be made useful and productive member OF
society BY proper teaching and treatmentf When
proved before the civilized nations Of the earth,
and In our own consciousness for having made "
All these things are not to be accomplished by one
individual, but they win receive my support and
Judgment best serve to carry them into effect.
beg your support and announcement.


1t has been and is my earnest desire 70 correct
abuses that have grown up in the civil service OF
regulations, methods of appointment and promo
ton were established and have been traced. MY
EFFORTS for such reformation shall be continued,
to the best of my Judgment, and the spirit OF the =


acknowledge before this sesemblage, represent-
ing, as 1t does. every section Of our country the
obligations am under to my countrymen for the


honor r. they haSs Syssa on s n n er
land, and the further obligation rest.
ing on me to- render them the best ;.
services within my power. This promise, look
ing forward with the greatest anxiety to the day
when shall be released from responsibilities that
at times are almost overwhelming, and from which
have scarcely had a respite since the eventful fr-
ing upon Fort Sumter in April, 1851, to the present
ed under the first call for troops growing out OF
that event. did not ask for place or position,
and was entirely without influence or the ae-s-
quantance Of persons OF influence, but was re- :
solved to perform my part In q struggle threaten
ing the very existence Of the nation. I per-
formed q conscious duty without asking promotion
or command. and without q revengeful feeling to-
ward any section or any individual; Notwith-
standing this, throughout the war and from my
candidacy for my present office in 1868 to the close
of the last Presidential campaign, have been the
subject Of abuse and slander scarcely ever equaled
afford to disregard in view Of your verdict which
gratefully accept as my vindication. - -
Year: 1873

THE Hartford Comm Courant states
that more than year ago 3 conductor on
the night train received from passenger
in payment of his fare a thousand dollar
greenback. The conductor told him he
would give him his change later, but
when he returned the man denied having
given him the note. The conductor plac-
ed the note on deposit in bank, and it
has been there ever since.
Year: 1873

.fsrTHk "BREWSTER WAGON" A.
in all weights for pleasure driving or speeding,
" e fH3h[.- exqufsitely finished,
and embracing qeir construction the various improve
ments iptTQdrs9 ~ during the past ID years. making
them


the standard for Quality
throughout the United states.


These wagons exclusively the production of our
stock In all equal in quality to those built to the
order OF the most valued customer, and at prices


uniform to all
In order that we may not be confounded with Joint
stock company of carriage dealers who have adopted
firm similar TO and impudently claim the
reputation have made Tor the Brewster Wagon" we
beg the Public will remember that our only warerooms
at the corner Of


Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street.


and our only Factory Broome street


BREWSTER Il CO.,


OF Broome street.
Year: 1873

we are not an aiarmlst, but we
believe that it is the part of q wise
man TO make known Il public dan
ger, whore one exists, and the pub
lie knowledge of its existence is
necessary to proper steps toward
combating it successfully. 1t has
been urged, that fear kills more vic
TINS than cholera, and that a public
statement that an epedemic exists
does more toward increasing the
mortality bills than the disease IT.
self. This no doubt, Is true, when
simply the assertion OF the existence
Of the malady is made, but when it
ia coupled with statement OF the
probable causes ofsickLess, the me-
thod OF avoiding or removing them,
and an uniailing remedy for the
disease, we cannot but believe that
great good Will result.


1t is useless to disguise the fact
that an cpedemo exists amongst us,
and whether we call it "The pre-
vailing disease" "Cholera Morbus,"
or come right out and use that word
of dreadful import Cholera it is
all the same, it is among us and
people arc dying with 1t. Since
last Wednesday, when the fact first
became known, no less than nine
adults within a radius of two miles
from town have been stricken down
and died with it.


1t is true that in every one Of
these cases the attack can be traced
directly to the gluttony and impru-
dence of the deceased; but their de-
cease shows prodlsposing tendon
cy toward cholera or choleraic dis
cases, of what would be at other
times simple disorders of the diges-
tive functions or secretive organs.
Such being the fact, We deem it our
duty to warn our readers against
all excesses whatever, in eating and
drinking. Especially would we
warn them against fruits and vcge-
tables, stale or unripc, and but part
ly cooked. The experience ofphy-
sicians in our larger cities shows
that n diet of fresh meat is also I'M
wholesome and dangerous. But
more fruitful source Of disease and
death lies IN the water that is drank
by the community. The wells in
these bottoms, as our readers are
aware, preserve q level of water
with that of the river, and our well
water is simply river water filtered
through the earth. While it is
robbed in the filtering process of
the coloring matter heldin solution,
1t is impregnated with the salts and
soluble matter that the earth,
through which it passes, contains.
As a general thing our wells con-
tam only lime, which while
rendering the water "hard" and
unfit to wash with, do not damage
il to any great extent for drinking
purposes. But during the overflow
season water is driven into the wells
under an immense pressure, and
carries with it much decaying vege-
table and animal matter.


As long as the water remains high
in the well and the bucket is filed
from the top, We do not taste it,
but as it grows lower and lower,
and as each time the bucket de-
scends IT stirs up the muddy sedi-
ment of the bottom, the taste be-
comes worse and worse, and the
water has corespondingly dele
terious effect npon tho health of
those who drink it. The wells all
around us are thus becoming rank
and unfit for use until they have
been cleaned out. River water is
healthy at all times, ael those who
can do SO are advised to use it ex-


.aEa Tsn iJ
Year: 1873

The Erpress says relative to the
misuse of money of the State bank
of New Brunswick, New Jersey ;
"The report is now that not only
the entire surplus but capital, and
even more, is exhausted by loNis
made to the carpet company, and
further that securities or loans will
not reach over one-half Of the bal
ance of the money loaned by the
officers in charge
Year: 1873

Especial to The State Journal
4 STAUNToN, December 19.-The dead
body OF man named Shay was found
lying near the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road bridge in the southwestern part of
this city this morning about six O'Clock.
The cause of his death is not known.
Year: 1873

TREASURY REPoRT.-We are indebted
to General Francis e. Spinner for copy
Of his annual report to the Secretary of
the Treasury for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1878. If anybody can keep money
right and figure up an extensive column of
figures in the interest of the public he
serves SO faithfully, that individual is
Francis e. Spinner, esq.
Year: 1873

CENTAUR LTNIMENT.-
The great discovery of the
age. There is no pain which
the CENTAUR LlN1MENr will not
relieve, no swelling which it
will not subdue, and no Iame-
ness which 1t will not cure
Year: 1873

will be added to the amount of said remaining
half OF the tax charged in every case where the
party assessed shall fail to pay said remaining
half within the time so limited .i'9 te.s''' W.


aBut in case any person having failed to pay
in the MONTH OF JUNE one-half of the city
taxes due from such person, shall fail to pay the
whole thereof on or before the SlST DAY OF
DECEMBER, there shall be added " fli
Year: 1873

CHEAP TRANSPORTATION is q subject that
is beginning to attract attention at Wash
ington. The vote Of the West is beginning
to wake them up on the Potomac. They
are getting to understand there are some
people out here who know their interests
and that most of them have votes We
fancy they will learn after while there is
a West.


'The agitation of this question has been
too lately sprung, and the stupendcus mo-
nopolies controlling transportation are too
powerful and will fight any tampering with
their prerogatives too strongly to permit
their immediate results. The newspapers
have been burdened with all kinds of spe-
cites for the evils complained of, and the
people, vainly looking to their leaders for
relief, grimly wait, thinking deeply of
their wrongs, and determining in their own
minds that they will, if defeated now. place
men in the halls of legislation who will, in
time, grant their reasonable demands. It
required two score years or more to abolish
the crime Of negro slsvery-lt may take as
long to free the people Of this other and
equally obnoxious despotism of monopoly.
But the agitation is commenced and it will
never cease until it, too, is abolished, and
its defenders and supporters brought to re-
alize the fact that in this land of ours there
shall exist no slavery Of any kind. In the
minds Of the people, therefore, let there be
no wavering, no failing Of courage, no
weakening Of the back bone, no lessening
of their demands. The fight hiss COM
menced, and retreat will be the signal for
. tightening of the chains and an increase
of the burdens 50 unjustly borne
Year: 1873

Farmers are in debt, their farms are
mortgaged, their overdue notes are out
standing, they owe on open account. They
hate to take letter from the post Office
lest it be an insulting dun; they dislike to
60 to the city for fear of being buttonholed
by crusty creditor or merciless collec-
tor. A friendly bankrupt law may relieve
the unfortunate trader, but the farmer must
pay every cent he owes, with interest.
From this incubus Of debt the farmer must
be relieved. Providence has given the
farmer the past season, an abundant crop
OF wheat, and there is q manifest desire on
his part to get such price for it as will
enable him to pay his debts. He argues
that his wheat is needed and that if he re-
fuse to sell at present he will obtain, here
after, much higher price. So he draws
his wheat into the city, takes warehouse
receipt for the same, and waits for the
rise" The warehouse men smile.
Spring comes, the wheat must 90 forward
to make room for more in the warehouses.
1t is shipped from the towns on the Missis-
sippi to the elevators on the lakes-thence
it is shipped to Buffalo, to Montreal, to
New York, thence to Europe. into the hands
of the millers and the mouths of the people.
while the farmer holds the receipt in his
pocket waiting for the 4 RISE" Under the
present system the wheat dealer dictates
the price. The remedy for this is let the
farmer keep his wheat in his granary, or
what is better. let him keep it in the .tack-
in = we'll built, we'll thatched stack.


Through the Grange organizations this
course can be rendered general one-let
it be done. Self preservation is the first
law Of nature. desperate diseases require
desperate remedies. Farmers cannot live
eternally burdened with debt, at the mercy
of greedy traders and combining wheat
dealers. Farmers, keep your vheat under
your oson control until you ,oant to sell AND
THE WHEAT MARKET WILL RISE


In our next issue we shall have some
thing to say about other ways of advancing
the price Of wheat.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE A MUSTARD PLASTER


How many people are there who really


know how to make mustard plasterg


Not one in a hundred, at the most, per


haps, and yet mustard plasters are used


in every family, and physicians prescribe


their applications, never telling anybody


how to make them for the simple reason
that the doctors themselves do no,
know, as n rule The ordinary way is to


miy. the mustard with water, tempering
it with little flour, but such as that
wakes is simple sbominablc. Before il


has half done its work it begins to blis-


ter the patient, and leaves him finally


with painful, haycd spot, after having
! produced far less effect in a beneficial


way than was intended Now mustard
plaster should serer make u Ulster al ell
! II blister Is wanted, there are other
plssters far better than mustard for the
purpose. When you make n mustard
plaster, then, use no water whatever, but


mix tho mustard with the white of an


egg, and the result will be plaster which


will "draw perfectly, but will not pro-
| duce blister even upon the skin Of an


infant, no matter how long it is allowed


to remain upon the part. For this We
have the word Of an old and eminen


physician, as we'll as our own exp erienco
Year: 1873

NEW Doors The Danbury News
says, 1t is little singular how well u
pair Of new boots can be made to fit at
the store. You may be able to get vour
foot only part way down the leg Mt the
first trial, but that is because your stock.
ing is sweaty or yon haven't started right,
and the shoemaker suggests that You
start again and stand up TO it. and he
throws in little powder tyorn a pepper
box to aid you. And SO you stand up,
and your eyes stick out in sn unpleasant
manner, and every vein in your body sp.
pears to be on the point Of bursting, and
all the whilc that dealer stands around
and eyes the operation as intently as il
the whole affair was perfectly new and
novel to him, When your foot has final
ly struck bottom, there 10 faint impress
sion on your mind that you have stepped
into an open stove, but he removes it by
solemnly observing that he never saw a
boot fit quite so we'll AS that.


You may suggest that your toe presses
too hard against the front or that some
OF the bones in the side of the foot arc
too much smashed, but he says this is NJ
ways the way with new boot, end that
the trouble will entirely disappear in a
few days. Then you take the old pa r
under your arm and start for home as
animated as relic of 1912, all The while
feeling that the world will not look br ght
and happy TO you again until YOU have
Drained that shoemaker Youlimp down
town the next day, and smile the while
with your mouth, while your ewes look
~ If you were walking over an oyster
bed barefoot When no one is looking
You kick against pest or some other
obstruction, and show fondness for
stopping and resting against something
that will sustain your weight. When
you get home at night you go for those
old boots with An eagerness that can not
bs described, and the remarks that YOU
make upon learning that your wife has
disposed Of them to a widow in the sub
urbs, are calculated to Immediately de.
populate the earth Of women and shoe.
makers generally.