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Year: 1872

Cream IL allowed To mould and spoil.


Silver spoons are used 10 scrape
kettles.


The scrubbing brush Is left TN the
water.


Bones are burned that would make
SOUP.


Nice handled knives are thrown in
to hot water.


BroGms are never hung up, and are
soon spoiled.


Dish cloths are thrown where mice
can destroy them.


Tubs and barrels are left in the sun
10 dry and fall apart.


Clothes are left on the line to whip
to pieces in the wind


Pie crust is left to sour, instead OF
making a few tarts for tea.


Vegetables are thrown away that
would warm for break fast.


Dried fruit IS not taken care of in
season and becomes wormy.


Bits OF meat are thrown out that
would make hashed meat or hash.


The cork is left out Of the molasscs
jug, and the flies take possession
Pork spoils for the want of salt, and
reef because the brine wants sca!ding.
Potatoes in the cellar grow, and the
sprouts are not removed until they he
come useless.
The bread is sifted in a wastcful
manner, and the bread pan left with
the dough sticking to 1t.


Vinegar is drawn in tin basin, and
aIlowedto stand till both hasin and
vinegar are spoiled.
Cold puddings are considered goo'
! for nothing, when often they can bC
steamed for the next day.
Year: 1872

They are organizing 4 colony in
Boston which Is to be recommended
as a means of getting rid Of virtuOus
and correct young men. Excellent
land to the extent OF about twelve
townships, has been secured in Min
nesota, and is to be sold to the colo
nlsts at moderate prices, No one IS
admitted 10 membership in the colo
ny except young men Of temperate
habits and good moral character, who
will pledge themselves not to sell or
countenance the sale of liquor. This
is a good thing for the Minnesota col
ony but how about Boston? Can she
afford to send off this class Of young


mens
Year: 1872

We find tho following in the Court
Journal:


waiter - The waiter replied,
''Sir" "Waiter, I am man OF few
words, and I don't like to he continual
ly ringing the bell and disturbing the
house. I'll thank you 10 pay attention
to what say, and 10 remember that,
although there are different ways of
doing things, only like one way in
those who have subordinate stations
and minds. In the first place, briug
me q glass of brandy and water, (cold,l
with q little sugar and also q teaspoon.
Wipe down this table, throw some
coal on the fire, and sweep down the
hearth. Bring me ia couple OF eau
dies, pen, ink and paper, some waters
and a little sealing wax. Tell the
hOstler to take care of my herse, dress
him well, stop his feet, and let me
know when he's ready to feed. Order
the ehambermaid to prepare me a good
bed; take care that the sheets are
well aired, a clean nightcap, and q
glass of water in the room. Send the
boots with 4 pair Of slippers that /
can walk to the stable IN. Tell him /
must have my boots cleaned and
brought into the room tonight, and
that I shall want TO be called at five
O'Clock in the morning. Ask your
mistress what I can have for supper /;
| should like a roast duck or some
thing Of that sort. Desire your mas
ter Ia step in, | want to ask him few
questions. He is in the interest Of
tba liberals I believe and so much
the better, tor ] have q friend who
will stand for the town at the next
vacancy. Change this five shilliDgs,
worth of stamps into coin none OF
the silver to be worn. When does the
mail arrive with the letters, and what
time before p. NJ. does the mail leave =?
Are there any soldiers quartered in the
town, and how many? just tell me
what time it is 10y the clock on the
landing, and leave the room ~
Year: 1872

A fearful tragedy occurred in Ro
chester, N. Y, "a few days ago, a
what is commonly known as the Olt
Break of Day House." kept by Johl
Mclaughlin, The place has been TO
years notorious rs the home of th'
most vicious characters. Gilbert Nc
Laughlin, son Of the proprietor, while
delirious,. it is supposed, from effect
of incipient fever, or from some othe!
cause, shot his step-mother fatally
and wounded man employed to take
care of him. The murderer, accord
ing to the testimony thus far gath
cred, was under the hallucinatior
that there was design against his
own life, and he took position or
the second floor at the head Of the
main staircase with a duelling pistol
in his hand.


Mrs. Mclaughlin locked hersel,
into the front parlor and waved hel
handkerchief, and called upon the
man Jewett, woo was hired to take
care of young Mclaughlin, to come
up stairs. Jewett endeavored to do
so, but retired after receiving a bullet
through his arm.


Then ensued a fearful struggle on
the part of the woman in the room to
defend her life against the madman
outside. Her old and imbecile hus
band was in another part of the house
unaware Of what vas going on, or at
least unable to interfere Jewett
raised an alarm when he retreated,
and ali the persons outside seemed
most unaccountably dilatory in inter-
fering. The unfortunate woman plac-
ed herself against the room door to
hold it firm.


Young Mclaughlin placed his pis-
tol against the panels and fired through
twice. 1t is thought that one of the
balls passed through the body of the
deceased, inAicting the mortal wound,
and that she dragged herself over to
the window near which the corpse
was found. 1t may be that she was
struck while attempting to escape at
this point, as the murderer finally
kicked in the panel and reached
through to take aim in firing the last
shot.


Mclaughlin was one who often
showed a disposition to escape from
the associations of his youth, but
lacked strength Of mind to do SO. He
was clad in a night-gown during the
whole ARRAY, and refused to allow any
clothes to be put on him after his ar
rest.
Year: 1872

ward beauty of a country dwelling is
a matter of no less consequence. Its
adornment though simple and inex-
pensive, may yet be made to add a
new charm to the inner comforts.
Flowers over the porches, and shrubs
and flowers on the lawn, and natures
arts, though cheap, are in their
natural beauty more attractive than
any other thing that costliest art can
supply.
Year: 1872

sir" she was on her way to be shot,
and was shot. For fear of prejudic-
ing his case she had repressed any
disposition to cry to him for aid-she
hail denied herself the last word Of
sympathy profered on her way to
DEATH So much for one Of these
fends in female shape.
Year: 1872

SISTERS FAIR.-The Sisters of Mercy of Otta-
wa return their thanks to the public for their
generous patronage at their last fair.


The receipts above all expenditures amounted
to $500.


A few articles which were not disposed Of,
either because they were not sold or from want
OF time to sell them, have been returned to the
convent. Those on which any chances have
been taken will be rafled when the number
shall have been filled.
Year: 1872

MEssRs. EDITORS FREE TRADER: There
seems to exist a misapprehension prejudicial
to the best interests of the La Sale County
Agricultural Society, especially at this par ic.
ular time when committeeman are soliciting
and making every effort to secure funds to
enlarge and improve the grounds Of our
County Society, to accommodate the State
Fair. Many hesitate to subscribe, under the
impression that three hundred certificate hold.
ers are the only owners Of the ground and i'm.
provements of the La Sale County Agricul-
tural, Horticultural and Industrial Society.
THIS IS not 50.


Section OF the Constitution, as regularly
and legally amended by the Society August
lst, 1871, is as follows, to wit:


S.s That person wishing to member Of


trial society shall pay his annual dues Of one dollar and y


n the ;e aa and de v s @ sn


tied to all the privileges OF members.


The consideration for which certificate
holders receive the right of membership is
generally known to be as follows, to wit:


In 1865 the grounds of our Society were
incumbered and about to be sold for indebt-
edness, and after every other means had failed,
three hundred men came to the rescue Of the
Society and advanced ten dollars each, and
saved the grounds, and received therefor a
certificate of membership. This certificate
gives the bona fide O ner no privilege not
extended to any other Il! mber, save the single
exception that he IS exempt from the payment
of annual dues his voice and vote count no
more ir the meetings of the Society, and his
interest in its prosperity and accumulations
is no greater.


trust, Messrs. Editors, that this explana-
ton will satisfy those well meaning individuals
who have kept aloof from furthering the State
Fair movement on the theory that by so doing
they will benefit the certificate holders without
helping the La Sale County Agricultural So
eety, and that henceforth their voice, influence
anl dollars will be for and with those who are
cndeavoring to promote the interests of Agri-
culture, Mechanics and Fine Arts of this sec.
ton by having successful State Fair this fall
and after the State Fair shall have been loca.
ted elsewhere, our County Society will have
jas. such grounds and improvements as the
credit of the county demands. All of which
is the prayer of your obedlent servant,
| W. E. BOWMAN,
sec'y La Sale Co. Agricultural. Hort-
cn1 Tndt riu1
Year: 1872




This disease is acute catarrh or in
fuenza, prevailing at this time as an
epidemic. 1t consists of irritation, con-
gestion and inflammation of the mucous
Innings, of all the air cells and passages
of the head and throat. Everybody
knows the symptoms. Little medicine
should be given, as there is more danger
OF giving too much than not enough.
By careful nursing SO out of 100 will get
along very we'll without internal medi-
cine. Take away their hay and oats /;
feed warm bran mash and clean oat or
rye straw moistened with brine We
have given our horses land we have six
all sick with the distemper) from six to
eight drachms of bromide of potassium
two or three times day, dissolved in
bran mash, for the first two OF three
days while the inflammation lasts. This
medicine Is a powerful sedative. and as
such lessons the flow of blood to the
head and lungs. I have prescribed the
bromide of potassium for two years past
to break up severe colds (which is acute
catarrh) of myself, family and friends,
and 1T never failed to cure the cold ef-
fectually in from l2 to 24 hours


1t has worked well on my horses.
After the nose begins to run freely, the
danger is passed and by good care the
horse will be soon well. Externally ]
used and would recommend Dr. Trask's
Magnetic Ointment to the throat,
around the ears and ON the forehead.
This ointment contains tobacco and To-
bella, and operates upon the mucous
glands of the head and throat by caus-
ing an increased flow of secretion from
them, at the same time by its relaxing
effect removing the structure and giving
almost instant relief to the cough and
breathing. Free ventilation, (butavoid-
ing draughts of air. is very important
good fresh air is very essential, there
fore burning tar or anything of the kind
should be avoided. If the weather is
not stormy, turn the horse out during
the day.-D. RANSOM, NJ. d.
Year: 1872

At the time that Payne entered
the Secretary's chamber, after the
scuffie in the hallway with his son,
Mr.. Frederick Seward, he was lying
upon his side close to the edge OF
his bed, with his head resting in q
frame, which had been made 10 give
him ease, and to protect his broken
jaw from pressure. He was trying
to keep awake, having been
seized upon by a sick mans fancy
it was that if he slept he would wake
up with the lockjaw. He was brought
to full consciousness by the scuffie
in the passage-way, followed by the
entrance of the as ASSN and the cry
of Miss Seward, ''Oh, he viii kill my
father!' but he saw nothIn g of his
assailant until hand appeared
above his face, and then his thought
was, 'fWhat handsome cloth that
overcoat is made Of


The assassin's face then appeared,
and the helpless statesman only
thought "What handsome man !"
Then came a sensation as OF rain
striking him smartly upon one side
of his face and neck. then quickly
the same upon the other side but
he felt no severe pain. This was
the sassin's knife The blood
spouted. He thought: "My time
has come and, falling from the
bed to the floor, tainted. His first
sensation of returning consciousness
was that he was drinking tea, and
that it "tasted good" Mrs. Seward
was giving hin tea with a spoon.
He heard low voices around him
asking and replying as to whether
he would recover. He could not
speak, but his eyes showed his con-
sciousness and that he desired to
speak. They brought him porce
lain tablet, on which he managed to
write: Give me some tea. / shall
get WELL And, from that moment,
he slowly but steadily recovered his
hpolth oT6 cfraootb
Year: 1872

Our INPRUDENcE THE CAUSE OF CoysUMP-
TioN.-How many of us can date the cause
of our last sickness TO either a crowded
room, aud then coming out in cold air.
or wearing damp clothes, causing cough
which settles upon the lungs, producing
seated pains in the chest Aliens Lung
Balsam viii check the disease and restore
health to the system. if only used in time.


Remember and call at the IJrug Store
for Aliens Lung Balsam. Every family
should keep it at hand
Year: 1872

Hearth and Home objects to the
very common practice of dumping
manure in heaps on the farm, leav
ing it to be spread at leisure after
wards. and details single case of
injury TO wheat and oats from lodg-
ing, rust, &c, on the spots where
the heaps had been made. We have
often noted much the same result
both on grain and grass land. Even
when not allowed TO remain long
enough to infiict actual damage to
future crops, it always results in
unequal fertility the site of he
heaps will exhibit three or four
times the productiveness of the ad-
joining land. The best way is to
spread Immediately.
Year: 1872

The following is said to be an ex-
cellent remedy for a foundered
horse: When you are satisfied that
he is foundered, no matter what the
cause, give him one pint cf dry salt
with spoon; then keep him in
the stable, without drink, for twenty
four hours, and nine times cut of ten
a radical cure will be effected. This
remedy, however, recommended only
in the first stages or within three or
four days after the cause Uestern
Rural,
Year: 1872

The Territory OF Utah contains no
less than twenty-five smelling worss
that have been erected at different
times since 1870, which are able to
treat no less than four hundred and
sixty four tons of ore day.
Year: 1872

To Clean Kid Gloves.-Have ready a
little new milk in one saucer, piece of
white soap in another, and clean cloth
folded two or three times. On the cloth
spread out the glove smooth and neat.
Take piece Of flannel, dip it in the
milk, then rub off a good quantity of
soap on the wetted flannel, and com
mence to rub the glove toward the
fingers, holding it firmly with the left
hand. Continue this process until the
glove, if white, looks of dingy yellow,
though clean if colored. till it looks
dry and spoiled. Lay 1T to dry, and the
operator will soon be gratifed to see
that the old glove looks nearly new.
1t will be soft, glossy, smooth and
elastic.


To Caok Potatoes.-Select such as are
Of uniform size; wash them, but do not
disturb the skin in any way; cover with
cold or lukewarm water, an inch above
Year: 1872

1t is difficult to conceive of a more
purely wanton and devilish piece of
villainy than was lately attempted in an
English theatre. During the represen-
tation of pantomime, nearly twenty OF
the performers, young women and chill
dren,. had to be hoisted to, a considerable
height above the stage. They were dis
tributed into five groups, and as one
of these was being raised, the rope used
for the purpose broke. 1t was then dis
covered that four out of the five strands
in it had been cut, and upon examina-
ton at the close of the scene, the other
four ropes were found to have been
similarly treated. fortunately, they
been cut too little, as the first too much,
and by the merest chance this heartless
piece of wickedness was frustrated.
Had it succeeded, hardly any OF its in,
tended victims could have escaped
either instant death or very painful
injury, since the fall was forty feet
Year: 1872

An ingenious Yankee has invented an
excavator for the use of dentists. 1t is
machine for drilling those dreadful
holes in the teeth which are usually
prepared with so much toll for the
operator and so much torment for the
operated upon. 1t is capable of about
1000 revolutions a minute and conse-
quently will bore into a persons molars
and clear out cavity in very short
space of time. Whether the sensation
produced is calculated to contribute to
ones happiness or not we are not IN.
formed, but it is a great point to get rid
of the everlasting gouging and scraplne
OF the dentist.
Year: 1872

MR. w. U. sAUNDERs's CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
To The Editor OF The Tribune.


SIR: find in this mornings TRIBUNE, note
from w. u. Saunders esq. OF Baltimore containing the
following challenge II will meet any one or more OF
the colOred men OF the country sustaining Gen.
Grant in public discussion in tue City OF New-York or
elsewhere"


Please inform Mr. Saunders that OF the coOred
mel who heartily sustain the accumulation OF Gen.
Grant for the Presidency OF the United States do accept
with pleasure his challenge, and will meet him In public
discussion in this city, at any time IN the month VI August
that may suit his convenience.


Nee York, July is. HENRY HioHLASD GARNET.


I'VE are glad that DR.. Garnet is ready to come to
the defense Of DR.. Grant and We wish him joy Of
the good time which he is likely TO have should the
debate proposed ever take place. Dr. Grant says if
the South doesn't do as he thinks it should that no
will be down upon it with hiS cavalry, his artillery
and his infantry. This is the natural course to be
adopted by military man. Dr. Garnet says that he
shall be delighted to tho cavalry the artillery
and the infantry operating upon the sinners This
NAV be- the natural view of the matter to be taken
by such Minister Of the Gospel OF Peace and when
Gen. Grant starts the regiments, he viii know who're
10 lock for Chaplain.-Ed
Year: 1872




In looking over a Campaign LIFE OF
Grant and Campaign Life" OF Greeley, one cannot
help being struck with the different moral Impression
which they must produce those who read them. Wo
Greeley beginning his career "a hard working lad,
labOring mduitri0usy at his trade till he was well into
manhood andst struggling steadily, day and night to
obtain education and acquire know edge. We SEQ him
starting newspaper, through which he might labor,
with all his eneiges, for the benefit OF his elow-Inan
We him usiIg it the means OF advocating uni
versal liberty, eyating the working classes, assaing
Slavery, purifying politics. ana uphOldiDg right AMI
Justice. We him always INDUSTRIOUS ylrtuOus, and
benevolent, living an honest hle and faithful TO his
ideas. His caTeG is lesson 10 young men, and the
history Of 1t maI almost be said 10 furnish model by
which the lives u Others should DC formed


Grants career furnishes no such example TO Others
When n young nm be was sent to West Point, from
which he graduated with particular credit as mill
tary student. HIS subsequent adventures and his vari
OF trying 10 get living in San Francisco, ST.
Louis and Galem, till the breaking out OF the were
not OF nature N call forth any particular admiration,
or TO admit OF an! highstEg eulogy The only praise
that his biOgraphr gyo him Is for his career In war
as a military commander. For his strategy and his
warke he deserves praise; but when TINS has
been said all has been said. IL ID impossible to speak OF
his ardent pursuit of knowledge his ceaseless and
cessu industry, his devotion 10 high principles noble
IDEAS the elevation OF man. the rights OF the oppressed
moral and intellectual pro gress or the people l.
Is impossible to hold up his whole career example
Young such are the impressions made by look
Ing Ner tho campaign lives of Grant and Greeley.
Year: 1872

The following significant editorial from
the New York Times of the 10Th explains
itself:


"Some perfectly well-meaning people of
that order in remote rural districts are
cOngratulating Grant on the purchase by
Gen. Ben. Butler and Thomas Murphy of
a controlling interest i'll the Tribune. 9th
er credulous souls are sure the Tribune is
losing circulation and still others that it
is speedily to be turned against Mr.. Gree
ley."-TribWnc, oct. Is.


Here we see a man voluntarily dragging
very delicate affairs before the public. The
above paragraph was perfectly unnecessary
it is piece of silly bravadO, for we have
not anywhere seen the statement that the
Tribune was to be turned against Mr..
Greeley" The writer of the paragraph
merely stated what he knew was going on
in his office as "rumor." 1t is fact that
the Tribune circulation has fallen off: it is
a fact that the stockholders of the Tribune
have recently held meeting and discussed
the propriety of bringing the paper over
to the Republican party, and that vote to
that effect was very nearly carried. We
should not have alluded to these circum-
stances-which are no secret-if the Iri-
6u'1e had not, with characteristic bad taste
and folly, provoked remarks on the sub
Ject, There is not paper in the country
which does not see that the Tribune has
lost ground which it will require years to
recover, and that the present manage
ment" can not possibly stand.