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Year: 1875

START MoDERATELY.-It is a very
common thing that farm teams are in
jured more in one day, when first put
to work in the Spring. when their
muscles are soft from idleness, than
they re need be by months moderate
and proper labor, after they have ac-
quired strength by proper work.


1t is also very important to watch
closely the harness and yokes, that they
fit and bear properly. A sore shoulder
or swollen neck, has often been
produced in half days plowing at
the outset, that will cause the poor
animal to work in misery all the season.


1t is very useful to bathe the parts
on which harness and yokes bear most
heavily, with tepid salt and water, with
a tablespoonful of tannic acid added to
each gallon of the brine.


Battle when the teams are first turn
ed out from work, with pure tepid
water, until the perspiration and dust is
removed, then with the brine and tannin


Have the surface of the shoulders
dry and clean when the teams are
harnessed, and avoid working them in
the rain. For teams that are required
to work in the rain, vandykes, covering
the shoulders. are of great service.


None but lazy teamster will allow
the harness or yoke to remain on terms
whilst they eat their midday meal


Teams will perform more labor on
the same feed, in a given time, by
giving them water every two or three
hours-the water should stand in the
sun, if practicable-it should not be
cold on any account.
Year: 1875

PRUNING FRUIT TREEs.-The most
auspicious time in the whole year for
pruning all kinds of fruit trees, is
about the Summer solstice 1t is not
practicable, neither is it important to
prune to day; but any time between
the middle of June and the middle of
July will be found to be better than at
any other season of the year Trees
are forming wood rapidly at this period,
and if limb is properly removed at the
time we have recommended, wound,
even two inches in diameter, may be
healed over before the trunk will decay
or check and absorb water. which will
sooner or later occasion decay at the
heart of the limb or stump, which will
extend to the trunk, thence down through
it, to the ground.


A large majority of the trees Of old
orchards which have been trimmed in
Winter, or early Spring, are hollow
hearted, from the cause intimated, and
said trees are generally ruined with
sucker growth on them, both Of which
evils might have been avoided, had the
pruning been performed at the proper
time


No pruning is better than pruning
too much, or at the wrong time
Year: 1875

| was persuaded by the results thus OBJ
tanned to make further experiments
The land selected had been in corn the
year previous, the four acres only max
ing little over barrels of corn, all
told In the Spring of 1874, the ground
was broken up and sown in oats and
buckwheat, mixed; in August, the
whole was turned under, and 90 bush
els of spent tan-bark ashes per acre were
spread, and rye sown broadcast and
narrowed in The crop of rye was
fully seven feet high. l did not meas
ure the crop, but was induced by q
neighbor to take some to our county
fair, for which l was awarded the pre-
MUM. From the same piece of ground,
last year. we got good crop of clover
hay, with fair prospect for another
crop the coming season-and this on
ground that was said to be barren.-
SO much for cheap manuring, Turning
green crops under is not new inven-
ton, vet how few avail themselves ofthe
opportunity The farmers motto should
be to make all the manure you can, keep
it under roof till wanted, feed your land
to its hearts desire, and there will be a
satisfactory dividend at the end of the
year, after all obligations have been
discharged
Year: 1875

tBT The fault of many who desire
good asparagus is that they set the
plants too thick To get mammoth
"grass the roots should be set not
closer than two feet apart. A very
rich soil is essential to good asparagus,
but this may be near the surface and
above the roots. The common practice
of digging deep down into clay soil is
an injury, and many plantations fail
from just this extra labor in doing things
"well" The asparagus is seaside
plant naturally, and grows in sand OF
sandy soil, in which the water passes
rapidly away. The necessity of hav-
ing the roots high and dry instead of
deep down in we'll is well understood
by the English, who generally plant the
asparagus in raised beds four feet wide,
and often as much as eighteen inches
above the surrounding surface.


This season of the year is the one in
which new asparagus plantations are
made, and without passing on the ques
tions of distinctness of varieties, we
feel sure that if the hints we have given
arc attended to, any of the old-fashioned
asparagus beds will give seed which
will make plants that will give any one
satisfaction.


Ger Tsle1r1ph
Year: 1875

The use of carpetings may be traced to a very remote period. although as late as the time of Queen Mary, rushes and oth- CT coarse materials were used on the floors of her apartments. For many years Flu rope received all her carpets from the East. and in many places whole families might be found in the occupation of car pet weaving. We are now producing in this country carpets of the same excel lence as those of foreign make. The Read Carpet Co.,, of Bridgeport, are said to make the best Ingrain Carpets that are sold in this Country. Messrs. HALL < READ are the agents of these goods, and also keep the largest assortment of Velvet and BrusselIs carpets in the state. Hail t Read also enjoy deserved reputation for selling all classes of Dry Goods at the lowest market rates. They retail all do- mestic goods at the wholesale price lists and it is said that all kinds of housekeep- ing goods can be purchased there as low as in New York. We would advise our readers when in Bridgeport to visit Hall X Read. 9 4w
Year: 1875

LYONS, Iowa, Sept. 15.

 EDITOR ENoUIRER.--I partly promised you chapter of accidents. if nothing more interesting presented itself. If I fail to write them up it will be for want of material. The numerous hands and arms in slings notice coming daily to the Post office (for Uncle Sam and room togeth- er), attest the relentlessness of the pom derous and busy machines in saw-mill and workshop. They make no more of taking off hand or arm than of clipping splin- ter in two. Woe to the careless oaes who become so familiar with the dangerous in- struments as to be caught off their guard and their name is legion. But that does not equal the ravages of the railroads, which seldom let their victims off with the simple loss of hand or arm. If left to tell the story at all. it is the fearful story of lifetime shortened to a few hours, weeks, or months;-but, back of all, liquor is too often responsible, as it is for SO large portion of the other ills of life. Not long since, young man who had been imbibing too freely, "tired' on his way home, and lay down to sleep be- side the railroad track, only short dis tancc from our house. As the midnight train came laundering round the curve it took both his feet of in a twinkling. Physicians were summoned who decided on further amputation, and doubtless they did neat job, but he only survived it a few Eours. When an animal is maimed and injured beyond help or hope of re- covery, he is mercifully disposed of with the least possible pain and suffering, but man is not permitted to enjoy any such luxury. Though lingering in the most excruciating pain and agony. the feeble spark of life must be prolonged to the bitterest end, though he beg for mercy. But if I continue on in this train of thought, I shall soon be getting out of the orthodox traces, so I will change tie subject to more pleasing themes.

 At least some of your lady readers will be more interested to learn of our Floral Fair, which proved so decided a success, and, as there is no patent on it, possibly your V. I. M., Gf Village Improvement Movement is not the correct rendering. "vim" is not so very far out of the way) may conclude to try the experiment. We cleared S250 besides ministering to the finer feelings and cultivating tastes for the beautiful-and confidently recom- mend it to large towns and villages as pleasant and profitable means of "raisine the wind. !" where money is needed. Should any of your readers be minded to try it, and wish for more information in regard to it, I shall be happy to furnish all within my power. A.B.
Year: 1875

The position of the government in ref erence to the demands of Gov. Ames of Mississippi is a very sensible one. The President writes: ''The whole public are tired out with these Autumnal outbreaks in the South, and the great majority are ready to condemn any interference on the part of the government. Atty. Gen Pier pont shows that the Constitution only au- thorizes national interference on the re- quest of e governor when the legislature cannot be convened. He concludes as follows:

 You make no suggestion even that there is any insurrectian against the Govern ment of the State, or that the Legislature would not support you in any measures you might propose to preserve the public order.

 Suggest that you take all lawful and all needed measures to preserve the peace by the forces in your own State, and let the country see that the citizens of Mis- sissippi who are largely favorable to good order, and who are largely Republican, have the courage and manhood to fight for their rights. and to destroy the bloody ruffians who murder the innocent and un- offending freedmen. Everything is in readiness. Be careful to bring yourself strictly within the Constitution and the laws, and if there is such resistance to State authorities as you cannot by all the means at your command suppress, the President will swiftly aid you in crush ing these lawless traitors to human rights

 Sound advice that! Had Pierpont suc- ceeded Williams little earlier @ good many disagreeable complications would have been avoided. It is about time, too, that Southern Republican governors learn. ed to ''paddle their own canoes" In year or two there may be no Republican na- tional administration for them to call on for assistance.
Year: 1875

Perhaps it is all right, but why docs the Democratic Press of Winsted make such frantic efforts to "raise the hair" of the Democratic Netcs of the same peaceful village? If matters go on in this way there will be a worse Winsted post office fight than ever when Tilden comes in in TT.
Year: 1875

The Ray calls oar attention to the fact that the recent article in that paper about the Litchfeld ''jail ring. was contributed and not editorial. We are not surprised that the editor of that paper should wish our mistake corrected.
Year: 1875

Our correspondents seem to have nearly all taken vacation for the past two weeks. We should be glad to hear from them as usual next week. Stamped envelopes will be sent to those who wish them and if those who pay their own postage will oc- casionally note on their communica- tions the amount due,i it will be forwarded in them
Year: 1875

In his speech in the Senate on the
9TH in opposition TO Mr.. Conkling's
amendment Neaying it to the discretion
of the PrcSidcnt) to bis lThurman's) res
olution calling for information as to the
military interference in the Louisiana
Legislature, Mr.. Thurman said he did
not think it was for him, hat IN hand, to
bow before the President and say it was
for him to exercise his judgment. Louis-
lana was not the only State in which
trouble had occurred ID reference to the
organization of the legislature In ohio
on one occasion there were for two weeks
OF more two bodies, both claiming to be
the Legislature of the State; but, thank
God, they had NO fraudulent Returning
Board. They had not descended TO that
depth of peTdition. II Martin Van Bu-
rcn, who WAS then President, had sent
the military 10 interfere in that lcgisla-
tive conflict, his troops would never have
left Columbus alive In Pennsylvania
also there has been a similar instance,
and how would the people of that State
have acted had the Federal Government
interfcrCd? What would not be tolerated
in Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania
for a single moment was now the case in
Louisiana He desired To know whether,
because Of the first fatal step in fuisting
an Illegal Governor upon the people of
Louisiana, all liberty and all law in that
State was to perish. He wanted TO know
who it was that called into use the army
of tine United States to organize the
Legislature of Louisiana. He did not
want this matter decided by clamor or
,umult There would be tumultuous
spirit in View York, Ohio and Michigan
if either of those States were suffering
from the same cause.
Year: 1875

You have ali seen shot, and if you are
boy you have probably used it good
many times, to the terror of mother and
sisters and the imminent risk of your
own lives or somebody else's, but how
many of you can tell how they are mades
To look at them one would not imagine
they had to GO through such long and
intricate process to make them the
smooth, round, innocent looking, but
death dealing, things that they are.


VI you ever come TO Chicago one Of
the first things that will be apt to strike
your eye is high, round tower, rising
up seventeen stories anG almost as high
as the highest church steeples, and here
is where the shot are made.


The melted lead is taken to the top of
this high tower and poured through a
colander or sieve. the drops falling
down in real leaden rain, nearly 200 feet,
cooling as they 60. just as drops Of rain
harden into hailstones, and falling
into a tank of water below. Now
this might seem simple and
easy thing to do, and SO it would
lie if that were all there was to it. But
it is not. The drops of melted lead in
falling have tendency 10 cool az the
bo ottom FIRST, and so instead of hardening
into round ball the upper part would
stretch out like the tail OF comet
! Then, again, liquid metals crystalline in
Year: 1875

stOckwell that It was not intended for any
improper purpose. He had no information
that any portion Of this sum went or
was directed TO 20 10 any memhcr or
officer Of the Forty second Congress, aud had
no Information that any clerk or other cm-
plcve Of the House received money. Gen
Sheridan has made 40 official report concern
ing the troubles in New Orleans on the
organization Of the State Legislature, in
which be insists that the course taken by the
military authorities was iustiliahlc aud me-
cssary to prevent violence and blood she'd
and that the Conservatives first called on
Gen de Trobriand for his Interference l..
A. Witt, the Conservative Speaker, has also
made a statement, in which he says he did
not call on the General for his inter
ference further than to request him To
address a few words tD parties seek
ing to create disturbance at the time OF his
attempting 10 perfect an organization. The
City Council Of New Orleans has adopted, at
the suggestion Of the Mayor a resolution to
the effect that the statements Of Gen. Sheridan
in regard 10 the condition Of society in that
city and state, and the insecurity of life and
property, were uufounded in fact and an un-


justihable libel.
Year: 1875

In the Superior Criminal Court case of
contempt arose which promised to be Sc
rious to prosecuting witness, who insisted
on addressing the court from the bar
Judge Steele ordered him to be seated, but
he still persisted, and was condemned to
twenty-four hours imprisonment. A chance
was given for purging of contempt, and the
excuse moved the judge to annul the SEN
tence.


In the Fourth District Court habeas
corpus case will be tried this morning at
half-past ten.
Year: 1875

for popular education are most aSsailed. Ex
Admiral Semmes of the late confederate navy
"a gentleman whom many Maine Republic
cans and Democrats will recall-in an article
recently published, declared his determined
hostility to any plan for the education of
children at the expense of the state.


Tue examples already given are sufficien.
to indicate the retroactive tendency OF the
Democratic leaders in the South. We have
always been free to censure those unworthy
men who under the Republican name have
aided in plundering some of the Southern
States. We rejoice that they have had their
day but it may be said of them that they took
measures, however faulty. to establish sys-
tens of public education, which would in
time elevate the people to state of intelli-
gencc which would not tolerate their mis-
rule. But what can be said tor Democratic
reconstruction as indicated in their policy
toward the common school system? The ig-
norance and ostracism which the defunct
system of slavery entailed upon the South,
the Bourbon leaders there are evidently de-
termined to continue by other means. We
take pleasure in their expressions of good
will to the North and of their newborn de-
votion to the Union, but cannot lose sight
of the many indications that they are deter
mined that such New England ideas as a
general and well supported system of public
instruction shall not become to any extent
the policy of the South to rescue it from the
the disasters which always result from litter
ate and consequently vicious masses.
Year: 1875

WE would merely intimate to those well
meaning people who are getting up societies
which debar foreign born citizens from mem-
bership merely on the ground of their birth,
that less than hundred years ago, theirian-
cestors would have been shut out by the same
rule. 1t is a laudable purpose to institute So
cieties to jealousy guard our free school sys-
tenn, but to encourage organizations which
base distinctions between man and man
simply upon the accident of birth place, is
as unjust and as much at variance with the
genius of our institutions as to make political
distinctions because of race and color. Many
men who once belonged to the Know Moth
ing organization now see the folly of it, and
condemn that movement as conducive to
mischief,
Year: 1875

IT is quite likely that the reports of the
damages done by the recent heavy rains in
the Ohio Valley are exaggerated, but there
can be no doubt that much loss of property
has resulted, and that the crops are seriously
injured. Most of the damage done is in the
southern part of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The influence upon the grain market cannot
fail to be great Should there be scarcity in
Europe, as according to present indications
there will be, the price of bred stuffs will ma
terially advance
Year: 1875

ABOUT fifteen thousand mill operatives
are idle at Fall River. The strike began
Monday. Many wished TO go to work, but
were threatened by the associations and did
not dare to. 1t is impossible to say how long
the mills will remain closed. Most of the
shop-keepers have given notice that if the
operatives can afford TO take vacation of
thirty days they can afford to pay cash for
goods, and that no credit will be given them
until they 60 to work. This course will
doubtless have the effect TO shorten the
efr;l
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and yel-
fare of State, inspire NTH the firm resolve to
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
in the endearor to discharge the duties that
aoiU be incumbent on me If your choice shall prore
to be the choice of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for aoho you act in that event an honest
purpose and red determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

Gabrielle Greeley is distinguished in Loncon
for her bloom, the fine classic character OF her
head and face. the perfect simplicity and maid
enly modesty of her toettes, and the fitness
and fit of her dress. And all the watering
place bellies are biting their nails with envy,
and wondering why the same things are not
said of their insipid faces and extravagant CO.'S
tunes.
Year: 1875

Already there are indicationst that the
casting oflots for the constitutional con-


vention and mayoralty raiment has


begun among us. Time was when


whoever would be the best man to
represent the people in any public


body was canvassed and settled by the
people. Nowpolitical aspirants kindly
relieve voters from this burden by ar
ranging among themselves who of
their number shall go, and in the
event of its interfering with present
duties, loaves and fishes, providing for
some faithful retaflers to mind the
calf while they milk the COW. These
patriots, "all honorable men," seem to
labor under the hallucination that
upon them alone devolves the duty of
going to everything, being member
of everything and getting everything
in the way of political preferment.
Once they have tasted of it, they crave
it ever afterwards. It's fine thing to
parcel out the good things among
themselves doubtless, if they can, but
it sometimes happens that these War
wicks reckon without their host and
come to grief just as they had fondly
hoped that they had everything cut
and dried, and that the goose was
ravishingly lovely, and hung particu-
larly high, some practical voter puts.
a spider in the dulnpling, fly in the
ointment. 1T will be very sad now if,
after all the good things are divided
out, the people should knock the fat
in the fire and nobody get anything.
1t will be y Time for tears then, and
the grief stricken faces of the ignored
state savers who aspire to go down to
posterity as statesmen, will be study,
AS they will sit down and Willie rock
ing themselves to and fro, swear ilu-
emily in six languages, at the ingrati-
tude and perversity of the people
whose interest Is so dear to them all.
Year: 1875

The following are the joint resolu-
tions introduced into the state senate
by Senator Hobby, amended by Sena-
tor Shepard and unanimously adopted
on the 10th inst:


WHEREAS, 1t is the right and duty
of the states, OH appropriate occasions,
to give expression TO their sentiments
on all questions seriously affecting the
integrity AMI honnr Of the union and
the general government; therefore,


BE il resolved ly the Legislature OF
the state Of Texas, That we recognize
in the late Interference of the federal
government in the domestic affairs OF
Louisiana, anl its destruction of the
state gOverhm. mt, legally established
by the people 9f that commonwealth,
a manifest intention upon her part of
the present federal administration to
destroy the republican form of govern
ment in the states.


That Texas entertains profound ap-
probation of the spirited indignation
expressed by the advocates of freedom
and constitutional government
throughout the nation, irrespective of
political parties, at the outrage lately
perpetrated in Louisiana by the pres
ent fpderai administration, upon the
dignity of the union and the honor and
the rights of the states, and Joins In
the national protest against the prosti-
tuition of the United states army to the
illegal purpose of making war upon a
state of this union.


That to our sister state, in this her
hour of oppression aud wrongful affiic-
ton, we extend the deepest sympathy
and our firm assurance that the Amer
lean people will crown the present
usurpsrs of the powers of the federal
government with the just odium mer:
tied 10y the insult ordered, AMI the
danger Threatened to the entire nation.


That The action of certain military
officers of the United States, iE the un-
warrantable aud unconstitutional use
of the army in the expulsion of mem
bers of the house of representatives of
the legislature of Louisiana from the
capitol of that state, having been fol-
lowed, on the 18th day of this month,
i'm the state of Mississippi, by similar
action in the expulsion of the sheriff OF
a county of that state from his office,
when slch question is alone determine
bic by the courts of the country, calls
for an expression of opinion by the
people OF every state of the union, we
do, therefore, denounce the action OF
the president, In both instances, as a
proceeding unwarrantable in its ma
ture, inexeusable by any exigency of
the situation, unprecedented In the