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Year: 1876

There ought to be a good garden on every
well kept farm. 1t is a useful appendage
and should be we'll located, convenient to
the house, and receive as much attention as
any other part of the farm. Almost any
kind Of soil common in this valley, with
deep and thorough culture and an abundant
supply of manure, will do. Successful gar
den culture is mainly dependent upon three
things-first, an unlimited supply of well
rotted manure, and the thorough prepara-
ton of the soil before planting; second
planting at the right season ; third, thor
ough cultivation and pulverization and a
frequent stirring of the surface soil during
the period of growth of the plants. Butthe
first and most important step to be taken,
to secure a good garden, is what most farm
ers would consider an over supply of we'll
rotted manure, such as has been put in piles,
sheltered from the rain, and frequently fork
ed over to prevent what is called firefang.
From ten to twenty tons Of such manure is
often applied by gardeners to every quarter
Of an acre Of land, and is not thought by
them to be any too much.


The size of the garden must be governed
by the size Of the tamily-one acre as an av-
erage, will be small enough. A little observ-
alton and calculation will convince any
farmer that the products of q. single acre,
thoroughly cultivated, as it should be, will
actually give more profit than any other acre
on the farm according to the time and labor
expended on it. But. in order to work the
garden economically, it should be lain out
with a few roads and avenues, so as to plow
the land and till the crops as much as posi-
BILE by horse power. Diligence is the price
to be paid for a good garden, for in cultivat-
ing them it is important to begin the destruc-
ton of the weeds just after they bave sprout-
ed. We can go in with cultivator at that
time and feel like Samson, for we can slay
our thousands and ten thousands. No mat
ter if the garden contains only quarter Of
an acre, let it be laid out long and narrow,
work it by horse power as far as possible,
and do it often.


A farm without garden is something we
dislike to see. The vegetables and small
fruits which can be grown in them, promote
health, comfort and enjoyment. Think of
it, you who have been accustomed to having
q good garden, of doing without asparagus
Year: 1876

In growing roses tor the window the plants
should be procured in the spring; they
should be of small size, and, as a matter of
course, should be perfectly healthy at the
start. We thus obtain a cheaper and really
better foundation for future operations than
when large plant in full bloom is procured.
The soil is an important item, and should be
composed Of thoroughly decayed sods and
surface soil, (not, however, from garden
well enriched with good old rotted manure.
mixing thosawith q little sharp sand. The
little plant should be potted into size larger
pot than the one in which it had been pre-
viously grown. Place it in a warm, sunny
window, soak it thoroughly at first with
water, and protect it from the strong light
with paper until the leaves no longer wilt.


AS soon as the weather is sufficiently
mild, plunge the pots up to the rim in a cold
frame, whitewash the glass, and attend to
the ventilation and watering every day,
regulating the same by the state of the wealth
er. Once week give them aceak solution
of manure water, and occasionally turn them
out of the pots to examine the state Of the
roots; if they are white and growing no fear
need be entertained about the tops being
green and flourishing. AS soon as there is
an abundance of fibres around the outside
of the ball of soil the plant may be shifted
into size larger pot; but always bear in
mind that one inch larger in diameter will
always be sufficient, as plants are not infre-
quently injured by giving them too large
size.


In watering, always sprinkle the foliage
well, it refreshes and inyigorates it wonder
fully. Some growers often mulch the surface
of the pots with little tan-bark, or, what
is better, rotted manure (uever use it fresh
from the stables J this tends to keep the soil
moist and cool in hot weather. As the ex-
.cessively hot weather approaches, the frame
should be made to slope to the north, and
during the middle of the day the sash should
be raised up to an angle of 45o and fastened
with short prop, but as the sun declines it
must be lowered, and closed entirely at.
sunset.


Insects, of course, will annoy the novice,
as they do the old gardener, but the green
fly is easily killed with slight fumigation
of tobacco smoke, care being taken not to
burn the foliage by allowing it to blaze, and
mildew may be driven off by busting the
foliage with flour of sulphur. Earth worms
in the soil are sometimes very annoying to
obviate this plague the pots should be sunk
in coal ashes. If at any time plant should
look sickly, and cease to grow, the best plan
Year: 1876

TO PREVENT HAIR FALLING ORA very
simple preventive is to wash the head with
salt and water, being careful not to have the
salt water too strong, as that dries the hair.


Another excellent remedy is, one ounce Of
sage, one and one-half pints ofrain water
boil twenty minutes, strain into bottle and
add tablespoonful of white CASTLE soap, cut
fine, and teaspoon not quite full of pow
dered borax shake well and when cold rub
on the scalp thoroughly twice or three times
a day.
Year: 1876

a day.


OYSTER STEW. Drain the juice from one
quart Of oysters. Measure the juice, and IL
nothalf pintin quantity, add water enough
to fill the measure Place over the fire III a
porcelain stew pan, adding piece of butter
the size ola large walnut. When it comes
to boil remove allscum that may arise.
Put in the oysters and let Item heat through,
not cooking them enough to shrivcl them
and little more than half pint Of cream,
letit scald through again, and season to suit
the taste. New milk viii do instead of
cream, and the stove should be very hot, SO
as to cook them quickly.


TEA CAKEs.--Rub quarter. OF pound Of
butterinto quart Of flour, then beat up two
eggs with two teaspoonfuls Of sifted sugar
and two oteaspoonfnls yeast; pour this mix
tnre iuto the middle of the flour, adding
pint of warm milk as you mix it. Beat II
up with the hand until it comes off without
sticking, and set it before the fire, covering
with cloth after an hour, make it up into
cakes about an inch thick set them on tin
plates to rise before the fire for ten minutes,
and then bake in Il slow oven. a


NICE CREAM PIE.-One cup Of white
sugar, tWo-thirds of a cup of cream tartar.
half teaspoonful Soda This will make seven
thin cakes, between which spread the cream.
For the cream, take half a pint Of milk, put
into a basin of hot water on the stove, beat
one egg with white sugar enough to sweeten,
and add tive tahlespoenfnls of corn starch
stir this into the milk when hot, and flavor
with vanilla or lemon. When cool. put be-
tween the cakes.


Ham CAKE A capital way Of disposing of
the remains Of ham and making an excel
lent dish for breakfast is: Take. a pound and
ahalf of ham, fat and lean together; putinto
a mortar and pound it, or pass it through
sausage machine boil a slice of bread in half
pint OF milk and beat it and the ham well
together; add an egg well beaten up. Put
the whole into a mould, and bake rich
brown.


CREAM FOR FILLING.-One cup of flour,
two cups ofsugar, one quart of milk, four
eggs Heat the milk, and when scalding
hot, add the eggs, sugar and flour, well
beaten together, stirring as the mixture is
poured in. Flayorto suit yourself when the
custard is cool. Make an opening in one
side of each cake and put in the cream with
spoon, taking care to put in enough. Be
sure that the cakes are thoroughly baked,
yet not scorched. A quarter Of the recipe
given makes ten or a dozen cakes.





ONE tablespoonful of salt In an ordinary
lamp adds brilliancy to the light and saves
coal oil.
Year: 1876

1t is said, and we think truly, that every
man has his influence for good and evil. A
Cabinet officer may not have as much
weight in giving direction to public opinion
as the President, but his power is great a
head Of bureau may not command as
much respect as the Secretary, but his in
fueDce is not small and so on down in
regular graduation, until we come to the
lowest employee. The messenger, the
watchman, the laborer, the poor woman
that scrubs the stairs, all have an influence,
and though some may seem to be too small
for notice, yet drops make up the bucket
lul, and in the aggregation every drop
counts, has its due weight, and the bucket
that has the most drops in it will be full and
running over. This may illustrate the elec-
tion of President, when every vote counts.
Hence the importance of every influence
that gives direction to votes, for the man
who receives the most votes will be elect
ed, just as the bucket that had the most
drops in it was full and dripping over.


We would naturally conclude in looking
into the actual condition of the Depart
ments of Government now under the con-
troll of the Republican party, that it was a
Year: 1876

The same element which, with its far
reaching sway, menaced the Republic in
1861, is now rampant, and, aided by the
copperhead and dough face combination of
the North, is making strenuous efforts to
obtain control of the Government, and in
the language OF Ben Hill, Succeed in &C
complishing by peaceful means, and
"within the Union" what it failed to
accomplish out of it with its armed bat
talions. No sane man doubts the results if
by any mishap the Democracy gains con-
troll. Everybody knows how rebels will
domineer over loyalists, and how treason
will be rewarded. 1t requires no fertile
imagination to see ex-rebels filling all,the
offices of profit and trust under the Govern
ment and those who fought to maintain
the perpetuity OF the Republic retiring into
hiding places. Those who know the men
are aware of the promptness with which
Toombs, Wise, Davis, Lamar, Hill and
others will flock to Washington and die
tate the policy of the Administration. As
the South held the balance of power prior
to the war, plunging the country into
ghastly difficulties, is it not safe to assume
that she will do so again to the nations
Sorrow?


Are the people o. the North prepared
to admit that the war was a failure, and
the blood and treasure expended in its
prosecution wasted Surely Democratic
success means all these things aud more.
1t will be q foul stigma upon the gallant
youth of the Republic who died that the
nation might live. Democratic success
means the virtual reinstatement of four
millions of unfortunate citizens, who are
toiling hard to better their material condi-
tion. 1t means that they are to be re-
manded to a condition Of peonage, to the
end that the Southern chivalry may again
live by the fruits of unrequited labor. 1t is
not possible that the intelligence and virtue
of the American people can entertain for
moment the idea of turning over this great
Republic into the hands of blood stained
rebels and their sympathetic Northern
allies. While the clemency Of the people
has allowed Southern arch traitors to es-
cape with their liberty, and permitted
them to live only to traduce the lenience
which spared their Improbable lives,
they will not permit them to again man
the great ship Of State, whose mission is to
afford safety and protection to all. The
class of men who are now aspiring to gain
control should hide their heads through
sheer shame. They ran the rebel ship
ashore, aud should not be intrusted with
the pilotsge Of another. Their statesman
ship is on a par with the Confederate
money which is locked up in their trunks.
A defeated, impoverished and discounted
people; q land filled with widows and
orphans, oripples and premature graves.
these are results of the maladministration
of the main supporters of the Democratic
tricksters who are now making such
herculesn efforts to obtain control Of the
Government
Year: 1876

WE OBSERVE that Hon. William A. Piper,
of California, has gone home to eat his own
words. A recent press telegram from the
Pacific coast says that he denies having
asserted while in Washington that "gold
"pieces were his constituents" and that
"he did not know what in the HI the
"people of California sent him to Congress
I" for unless it was because he was richer
ethan old Christ" or that he had asserted
in substance that gold had elected him be-
fore and would elect him again if he wanted
to come back. That Mr.. Piper did make
statements to the above effect during the
session is susceptible of proof by the most
irrefragible testimony. Whether he was in
that condition of body and mind to know
and comprehend what he was saying at
the time is another question. II he wants
to lay the blame on whisky let him say SO;
that's all But don't let him deny it, be-
cause it is Of no use. There are too many
witnesses against him.
Year: 1876

matter of small importance whether the
Republican or the Democrat, the patrio: or
the traitor held the reins of Government
For we find five hundred at least holding
places in these Departments who are ex-
erting all the influence they can weld to
defeat the party that nourishes them in its
bosom, and gives them the means to exert
tenfold, yea hundred fold, we might say,


more Influence than they would have if
cast out as they should be, and left to
struggle for subsistence with the wolf at
their door, as many true friends of the party
now are doing because these vipers are
cherished. If the Republican party-the
party Of true patriotism-of progress and
that saved the Union and life of the nation,
and made it what it is to-day, should
be beaten by the party of treason
with its hands reeking in innocent blood,
and that fought four years to reud the
Union and destroy the nation, fearful,
most terrible, responsibility will rest
upon and crush with everlasting infamy
those who might avert the evil if they
would. They may think to shirk the
responsibility. but this is a time of investi-
cation, and the people will find it out.
They know it already, and will hold them
to it so sure as the sun continues to shine
by day and the stars by night. The good
and the true people all over the land are
watching them; the six hundred thousand
late Union soldiers, still alive, who stood
as wall of fire before the enemy to save
the nations life, are watching them; the
widows and orphans of those who died on
the field Of battle, in hospital or the rebel
prison hells, are watching them; and If
they do their duty now, when the rebel
yell of 81 is again ringing in their ears,
warning them of the impending danger,
and the blood of the Union citizen and
freedmen of the South is crying from the
ground for redress, and those yet alive
asking for protection-ycs, If they do their
duty now the blessing Of heaven will rest
on their heads, and Joy like the sunshine
and peace like the dew-drop will come to
them, and future generations rise up and
call their names blessed.
Year: 1876

WHILE the Democrats of Connecticut
have put up for their candidate for Gov
ernor an able man and one with good
war record, there will be much opposition
10 him within his own party. There is a
strong feeling against Hartford, to which
city MIR. Hubbard belongs, growing out of
the recent consolidation of the two capitals
by which New Haven was the loser, and
because of the charge that Hartford monop-
olizes all the offices and State patronage.
Dir. Hubbard himself is not popular with
the Bourbon clement of which Senator
Eaton is the head and 'front.' and cannot
Year: 1876

THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
contains the result of the Vermont State
election and the orders ofthe President for
the protection of voters in the South. Also
all the current news of the week. 1t is now
ready for the mails.
Year: 1876

TILDEN is ANXIOUS (D to be elected
President so that Tweed may be extra
dited under a treaty, the negotiation of
which was begun by Republican admin
istration-just for the honor of the thing,
Won know.
Year: 1876

A dispatch from Madrid announces the cap
ture there of an American who had kidnapped
several American children. In view of the fact
that all America has been searched to find the
Inflated Charlie Ross, this announcement will
at once arouse in the mind of the reader a
thought of the possibility of this arrest giving
some clue to the mystery, faint ss the hope
may be.
Year: 1876

Tweed turns up just in time to help Tllden
and the New York Democracy out of their
dilemma. Why not make him their candidate
for Governorl The little discrepancies in his
accounts at New York could be explained away
at the same time Tilden explains about his in
come tax, and things could go on in the old
ruts again.
Year: 1876

A pleasant paper is the Greenyille Is. c.
Enterprise, a paper full of the spirit of recon-
ciliation and brotherhood. This is specimen
from its editorial columns: fThe Democrats
everywhere have by words branded the Repub-
Hcans with infamy, and called them thieves
and scoundrels. 1t Ill becomes Democrat
who thus speaks 10 associate with men whom
he thus denounces. Governor Vance once
asked Ben Hill how It was that Georgia had
got so far ahead of North Carolina in putting
down Radicalism. Hill replied the reason was
very obvious. When a man of social position
joins the Radical party in Georgia, we not only
brand him with infamy, but we put him in
coventry, and all social intercourse with him is
broken of. But in North Carolina you meet
him and treat him as you formerly did. In the
one case he feels his infamy and is deferred ,and
in the other case he does not. This remark is
worthy of all consideration, and let every true
Democrat act on It,"
Year: 1876

A great deal Of mons .nse is written and
uttered about the Pre- 3ident's salary
and the last is a proposition from the
Morning Herald of this city, which says
that " if salary of 100000 were given
70 the President it would curb his pen
chant for gifts and interest in jobs
The old saying, the more a man has the
more he wants." was not founded entire
ly in error; and the Democrats House
Of Representatives acted wisely in voting
to reduce the salary. In doing so they
obeyed the will of the Democratic people
in conventions assembled. The people OF
Delaware are in favor OF the reduction. 1t
was q part and the metal part of the
Salary Grab and ought to be swept away
with the breath of public scorn. The ad-
dition which it added to Grants pay has
done him no good. The Presidents sal
ary is the smallest portion of what it
takes to keep the White House. The
truthfulness of the description which j..
Proctor Knott gave of the cost Of running
shoo SstabllohhSub ouklhe bhC lhoo bCh
years, and which we published, has new
er been denied. The government was well
served by the best men the country had
for SIS, 900 until after the present incum-
bent took the chair, and no amount Of
salary would satisfy his craving. In the
olden time it cost as much for Presi-
dent to live as it should do now. Wash
ington was by the force of circumstances
required to keep men in livery and to
drive in state to the Congress. Besides
the expenses Of his whole establishment
was paid by himself but now we find
the Presidents House furnished and al
most entirely kept by Congress.


The House is doing good work in cut.
ting down expenses and the Senate
should follow its example.
Year: 1876

From all parts of the country come
startling accounts of crime that appear
very much as if a terrible epidemic
had broken out in almost every SEQ
ton. In ST. Louis the Mckee whisky
ring is undergoing judicial investiga-
ton; in New Jersey the lands muir
der case is the reigning sensation; sup
plemented. however, with heavy de-
falcation, growing out of Wall street
speeulations; in Boston the Wins,o Y
forgeries continue to provoke commen.
and while they are still fresh in tie
public mind the disease breaks
out in q new place, and the villanies
of a confidential broker are exposed 70
view. Adding to these the North
ampton bank robbery, by which over
million of dollars were stolen, and
the record of crime for one day is qui g
heavy enough to satisfy the most SEN
sational taste.
Year: 1876

The Baltimore Anaeric071 issued its
edition last Monday morning from IT'S
new building, corner of Baltimore and
South streets. The edition was in new
type of an attractive appearance, and
included a supplement containing a
short sketch of the historT Of the
paper from its foupdation. and full
description of the new building. The
moving of the large press, which vas
an undertaking of much magnitude,
was successfully accom- plished at an
early hour on Sunday morning and all
the departments were in thorough
working or Ter as soon as possible.
Year: 1876

The Washington qHid nuncs of the
Herald and the World say the
''third term" is coming up stronger
than ever in the political gos-
sip of the capital. Every
body assumes that Grant is candi-
date for the nomination and few
doubt that he is a great deal stronger
than any of the others now seeking
the Radical nomination; while it is
also the current opinion that some of
he rival candidates are merely play
ing into Grants hands. The World
thinks Morton next i'll str myth to
Grant.
Year: 1876

The death of Hon. Henry H. Stark
weather, Representative in Congress
from the Third District of Connect
cut. leaves the Republican party OF
that State, for the first time in its his
tory. without Representative III
either branch of Congress.
Year: 1876

The Secretary of War La written a
letter to the Secretary of the South
ern Historical Society at Ricl mond,
regarding the existence of records Of
the late war, and to the Incomplete
ness of the Confederate records i'll the
War Department, as C impaired with
those of the Federal Government,
which is owing to the fact that the De
partment has only those of the former
that were captured, and the Secretal y
is gratifisd to learn of the disposition
OF Ger ain parties holding Confederate
records to place them at the disposal
of the Department. for use il "A publ
cation OF the records IF the War. Thr
Department is anxious to receive every
official report, letter, telegram or order
enanating from either side during tie
late war, and has 10 thought Of dis
eliminating in favor Of one section or
against another i'll their publication.
Year: 1876

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