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Year: 1876

We fully concgr with "Anti-RadicaP
that the selection of Judges and Chan
cellors should be confined to the men
who co-operated with the Democrats and
Conservatives in overthrowing Radical
misrule in the late election, until the
roll of capable and qualified members of
the bar in that party has been exhausted.
1t will be time enough, then, to take up
the men who have been giving aid, COM
fort and support to the most corrupt ad-
ministration that has ever disgraced any
country, and the evils of which the people
of the State viii feel when nothing shall
rem ain of it except disagreeable recol-
lection. Besides, rotation in Office is
cardinal tenet of the Democratic creed,
and the men who have abetted Radical
ism for years and enjoyed the honors
and emoluments of office during the long
and bitter period of Radical domination,
will have no right to object to the appli-
cation of the doctrine to themselves, even
tho they are possessed with learning
"above their fellows"
Year: 1876

THE negroes in Congress (including
our LYNCH voted against the anti
third term resolutions. The colored
people are not yet much educated in the
traditions of the Republic" They are
for Massa Grant,
Year: 1876

The Legislature is progressing well
with its work The Reformers are keep
ing their columns compact and moving
bravely on the works of the corruption
lists. The Augean stable will be
cleansed.
Year: 1876

Take advantage of these warm, beautiful
days to Fix up" the barns, sheds, pig-sties,
ETC., so as TO be ready for winter, as it will
come some of these nights when least ox-
pected, Be particular about making the
place for the calves warm and dry, for is this
their first experience with a Vermont win
ter, and they should not be stinted in their
growth, as they will not recover from it in
all winter. Vermont farmers must raise
calves, and no stock will pay better for ex.
cellent care during the first summer and
winter than they. We have seen calves
turned off to the pasture by the first of
July to shift for themselves till the ground
was covered with snow, and then the owner
complain because they are such "little
scrawny ruuts." Prepare at once then a
warm stable and bright sunny yard for their
winters use.
Year: 1876

from Bryant or Holmes or Whittier or Ten
nyson, or Lowell this is our ideal farmers
life realized. And we are profoundly grate-
ful to the New Hampshire college for show.
ing the sons Of the old Granite state, and
our own as well, that the ideal, if men will,
may become the actual. We trust also they
will teach the young men the art of butter
making, and for these two reasons First,
the selection and care of the stock aud mab.
ufacturo Of the dairy products should be
performed by the same mind and hands (;
keep your hands out of the butter, though.
Second, it is sad because true in too many
instances that the daughters whom these
young men will marry know not how TO
make uniformly good butter. The amount
of poor butter continually made by our far
mers is sad TO contemplate, and fearful when
we remember that some one consumes it all |;
and there is no necessity for it if people
knew how aRd would take pains to make a
good article Before us lie the market re-
turns of three dairics, and the price Of the
poorest is four cents per pound less than
that of the best-a loss of only $500 per
tub Would not that pay for little more
skill and care Our farmers daughters
generally will make as good butter as their
mothers, many of them better, but we do
not think they would know less, or find life's
work any more disagreeabe if their hus-
bands, yet to be, should know oil the
intricacies and fine points of er-making.
Why should not wife love husband bet
ter for this accomplishment, as he would
her if she could read and enjoy Horace,
and Tennyson, or Macauly aud Freeman
with him?


This college has more than half its grad
yates engaged in farming, and now that our
Legislature has adjourned without disturb
ing the foundations of the earth, cannot our
agricultural college give some Of these IA
cilities for a practical knowledge Of this
oldest, healthiest and most delightful occu.
patton
Year: 1876

The prices Of wool have not been so en-.
couraging as was desired by the growers of
the stable in the United States. The period.
ical cry of the manufacturers aud middle.
men, that the clip was an unusually heavy
one, may have had some effect but we look
for the principal cause in the general bust
ness depression that prevails throughout the
country. Moneyed men have plenty Of
money-anybody eau get 1t who stands
ready to mortgage his farm or house and
lot; but capital for manufacturing invest.
ment is scarce. Many wooden mills have
been idle or running on short time, while the
exigeucies Of business compels the holders Of
cloths to realize at prices that will not justify
them in laying in stocks Of raw material.
As has always been the case, we may look
for discouragement among such wool-growers
as have not "enlisted for the war"-men
who hoped to get rich and retire before the
shadows of "hard times" fell across their
pathway. To such we would say, don't sac
rifce good sheep. If you have more than
you can keep we'll, Gull out the less desira.
BILE ones, and get them into mutton condition
as soon as possible. Grass and grain are
comparatively cheap, aud good mutton will
buy all that is needed, and leave profit be-
sides If you would winter the remainder
cheaply. be careful to get and keep them in
good condition. Fat sheep will not require
so much attention as poor ones, aud the per-
centage of losses will be much smaller BE.
gin to winter your sheep now.


The men who make money out Of sheep are
not those who go into business when the
products Of the flock bring good prices, and
begin to get out as soon as less encouraging
outlook is presented. The right kind Of
sheep, hauled 10 the right way, may be de-
pended upon for fair return Through evil
and through good report" from the wool
market. Those who make money, sin the
long rum" from sheep, are the men who
"hold fast that which is good" and who, by
judicious breeding and liberal feeding, con
stantly strive to make it better.-Lipe Stock
Journal.
Year: 1876

Mr.. M. Buffum Of Winchester, N. H., says
for mechanics and professional men, and all
who keep but one COW, Jersey is best, and
10 any herd Of butter COWS one or two Jer-
seys will add greatly to the beauty and val.
ne of the butter. And yet If one wishes to
cat milk there are objections to Jerseys.
The cream on their milk rises very quickly
and the skim-milk is very poor. He had
also learned lately, what he did not know
before, that some families of Jerseys make
white butter. The Ayrshire is not a good
butter COW; for, though her milk is good +,
the cream will not rise but she is best for
cheese makers and those who sell milk.


For general purposes, for work and beef
and milk, the Short-horns are best. They
are the most numerous and they bring the
highest price, good proof Of their value.
They grow faster, and fatten easier, and give
more milk to the COW according to their
weight, than any others. Some families
have been bred solely for beef and beauty,
and their milking qualities are small. This
was the case with the Booths in England
and the Dukes here; but other families are
excellent mixers. In the dairy regions of
New York, and in fact all over the country,
the favorite COW is a grade Short.horn.


But Short-horps must not be starved.
They are hearty and will eat coarse fodder,
but they require good deal Of it. Our
farmers make great mistakes in not feeding
their stock better III winter. The great body
Of our stock is intrinsicaly worth less in the
spring than in the previous fall and the hay
it eats is thrown away. 1t should be kept
growing all the time, aud if farmers would
keep fewer cattle and feed them better, they
would make much more money
Year: 1876

"You see this hoss, don't you ?" called out
woman about forty years of age as she
drove up to Grand River avenue black
smith shop yesterday.


The smith came out and replied that his
sight was good.


81 want a shoe on that right foot to once"
she continued, and she jumped down and
had the horse almost out OF the wagon before
the smith reached the curbstone. She led
the beast into the shop, sat down on bench
and prepared to take a smoke, aud as the
blacksmith took down n shoe she observed:


"No fooing, now. | want that shoe to
stick to that foot for whole year. You
can't impose on me because I'm q woman"


After the hoof had been prepared the
horse suddenly became restless, dancing a.
round and bothering the shoer so that he
could not proceed.


"You don't seem to have had any expert
ence with horses" remarked the woman, as
she rose up and laid her pipe aside. 81
know this horse from Dan'l to Besheba, and
you just git back little"


The smith retreated a few feet and the
woman caught the horse by the bit, gave him
two hundred pound kick in the ribs and
yelled:


whoa Charles Henry git around there /;
stand over and take that-and this-aud
some more Now come up and toe the
mark !"


Charles Henry kicked the anvil off tho
block as she kicked his ribs, but she kicked
the hardest, and when the horse-shoer stuck
his head into the shop the horse was half
over bench but as quiet as a lamb.


"Now proceed" said the woman as she
picked up her pipe. "When a hoss goes to
tOoling round me asking for row he's lay
ing up sorrow for his gray hairs"
Year: 1876

The Prairie Farmer says fat horse is a
weak one, and his weakness is in proportion
to his fatness. News to us-the best spirited
horse We ever used was in good flesh aud he
did rare service. Our theory and practice,
too, has been to keep horse fat it is econ
omy Of feed and We have a weakness for
that kind of horse. But it is all clear
now We never could understand why so
many men, otherwise decent, drove about
and kept year in and year out old jades Of
horses whose ribs could be seen as far away
as the horse was visible; 80 poor indeed that
the corduroy surface of his sides gave an
undulating wave.like movement to the air
as he passed along the streets. We see all
through it now--it is strength, power
True, such beasts have not the fleetness and
agility of the well-fed, sleek horse of his
neighbor, but-yes, he is strong and pow.
erful Well. we wait for the next discovery
perhaps it will be that oats are injurious to
horses.
Year: 1876

We must offer gentle reproof to those far
mers who make the roadside half mile or less
from their buildings, a place to pile boards
or rails or old refuse of bush, etc., from the
orchard or wood-yards, so as to get it out of


the way. We have one in mind who has
new house, painted white, with green win
dow shutters, white picket fence in front OF
the buildings, well graded lawn about the
house aud all as neat as need be, who, Just
as soon as the picket fence ends, throws
bush, and stone, and potato tops, etc, over
the fence by the roadside, making it
look uncOmely and even hideous. lie wants
to make his home neat and attractive, and it
is but for that conspicuous defect, 1t is as
though he should dress in his best aud tLen
put on his old irOok in which be does chores,
aud start for church. How finely the white


clean linen shirt front, the black pants and
calf boots harmonize with that coarse, dirty
aud faded frOck, easily distinguished by its
rich fragrance of the stable. One is in
about as good taste as the other. Now
there is a more excellent way; burn up the
brush, pile the good rails elsewhere
Year: 1876

TnE Coon OF A HoRsE.-After a day of
close application in the office or at the desk,
nothing cools the fever Of the blood more
than good drive behind the favorite road.
ster. How delicious the air feels as your
hot face presses into it, as with ears turned
back to catch the signal the honest fellow
levels down to his work What life there
is in the oxygen as your lungs inhale it when
you take the wind full in your face at a fifty
clip How the cares OF the world and the
ills of life vanish, aud what sweet content
fills your breast as you 60 bowling along
One OF the hoalthiest customs in American
life is that Of driving good horse. 1t keeps
the nature fresh with the daily sight of sky
and field, aud gives innocent exhilaration to
all the faculties. 1t makes the heart glad
and fits one for home aud lively chat at the
tea-table.-W. II. II. Murray


Exactly, Sir /; those are our sentiments
only we would use the saddle at least half
the time it starts perspiration and annihi'
latcs dyspepsia.-[ED. FARMER.
Year: 1876

EDUCATE THE BoYs.-Rev. DR.. Allen. Pres
ident VI the Maine agricultural college, in
recent address on How to make farming
generally successful, gave this as one way,
"Make the work of farming honorable, and
render farmers influential in society. This
can be done only by giving a good liberal
education to those who are talented and who
are to be farmers. The bright, intelligent
boy will seek for employment in that pro-
iession which requires the best trained intel
lect II it is thought unnecessary for a
person to have liberal education to become
a mechanic or farmer, those who wish for
influence in society which can only be ac.
quired by trained intellect, will be driven
from industrial pursuits into the overcrOwded
professions.
Year: 1876

SOUND ADvICE.-0f course it is necessary
for most farmers to economze. We cut off
what seem to us unnecessary expenses. Yet
we must admit that we sometimes prune un-
wisely, aud cut off fruitful limbs. 1t would
be difficult to find farmer who could not
econOmize more judicously than by doing
without good paper, aud yet, and we re-
gret that it is SO, there are farmers with fam
lilies growing up about them, who do not
take single paper. How can we expect to
make the progress we should 10 agriculture
while we neglect the means Of education at
hand Farmers will fud il profitable to
take more than one paper if they are good
ones, BE careful in selecting reading mat
ter to got that which is pure and healthful,
aud then be sure not to stint yourself and
family in amount. You cannot afford to
mentally starve yourself aud family. Bet
ter ecOnomiEe to some extent in feeding the
body than to deprive the mind Of nourish-
ment.-EimiTG HusbaAdmaa.
Year: 1876

NEWSPAPERS AND FARMERs.-A CORES.
pondent Of the Boston Cultivator, writing
of the great advantages to be derived from
newspapers, by farmers, who, living apart
from society, need some means Of commun.
ication with the outside world says News
papers are made to spread intelligence and
improve morals. To the farmer, above all
men, they should be necessity, from the
fact that they afford him in his isolated con.
dition the only means Of mixing in the busy
scenes Of life. Man in hermit state be.
comes personifcation Of selfshuess-ca ar
ing for nobody and nobody caring for him.
Development comes alone from associating
with our fellow men, and appropriating to
ourselves the advancement which they make
No farmer should do without this social
schooling, both for his own good and that
of his children. Iu no other way can he
obtain it so fully and so cheaply as through
the periodical literature; and he who neg
lscts to receive these advantag deprives
himself of light, and lives out his days in
heather darkness
Year: 1876

Stick TO Your BUsINEss.-There is moth
ing which should be more frequently i'm.
pressed upon the minds of young men than
the Importance of steadily pursuing some
one business. The frequent changing from
one employment to another is one of the
most common errors committed and to it
may be traced more than half the failures
of men in business, and much of the discon-
tent and disappointment which render life
uncomfortable. 1t is very common thing
for man to be dissatisfied with his bust
ness, and to desire TO change it for some
other, which, it seems to him, will prove a
a more lucrative employment but, in nine
cases out Of ten, it is mistake. Look around
you, and you will 6nd among your aquaint-
ances abundant veri6cation of our assertion.
There is an honest farmer who has toll ed u
few years, got his farm paid for, but does
not grow rich very rapidly, as much for
as anything, though he is not aware of it.
He hears the wonderful stories Of California,
and how fortunes may be had for the trouble
OF picking them up mortgages his farm to
raise money, goes away to the land of gold,
and, after many months Of hard toll,
comes home to commence again at the bot
tom of the hill for a more weary and less
successful climbing up again. Mark the
men in every community who are notorious
for ability and equally notorious for never
getting ahead, and you will usually find
them to be those who never stick to any one
business long, but are always forsaking their
occupation just when it begins to be profta-
ble.-Scientifc american.
Year: 1876

A man was saving wood, yesterday after.
noon, in back yard. lie severed two sticks
as thick as your wrist, and then went into
the house. MARY" he said to his wife,
"my country needs me there's no use talk
ing, We must 60 to slaughter all these in
juns; no true patriot can be expected to
hang around the woodpile these days"
John" said his wife, "if you fight injuns
as we'll as you saw wood and support your
family, it would take one hundred and eigh-
teen like you to capture one squaw, and
you'd have to catch her when she had the
ague and throw pepper 10 her eyes" John
went back to the wOOdpile wondering who
told his wife all about him.
Year: 1876

What the Husbandman says in another
place is so true and so accurate in setting
the value and pl ace Of the FARMER, and the
people Of Vermont are so sensible that
we need say only this: il after years
trial of the FARMER you do not find its words
more than verified, we shall be greatly de-
ceived.
Year: 1876

the poor ones cut into fuel for the
stove, and the potato tops throw into
the compost heap. This splendid autumn


weather ought to see great deal of "slick.
ing up" done by our farmers and their Sous.
And be sure not to forget to pillow the vese.
table garden and spade the Hower.beds, and
while you are about it don't spare the dress.
Year: 1876

MORBID IMPULsE.-But one of the most
singular things exists in the case of young


man who not long ago visited a large iron
mandatory, lie stood opposite 4 huge
hammer and watched with great interest it's
perfectly regular strokes. AT first it WAS
beating immense Jumps of crimson metal in
to thin, black sheets, but the supply be-
coming exhausted, at last it only descended
on the polished anvil. Still the young man
gazed intently on its motion then he fol-
lowed its stroke with a corresponding motion
of his head then his left arm moved to the
same tune and finally he deliberately plac-
ed his fist upon the anvil, and in second il
was smitten to jelly, The only explana-
tiOn he could afford was that he felt an i'm
pulse to do it, ard that he knew he should
be disabled; that he saw the consequence in
a misty kind Of manner but that he still
felt power within, above sense and reason
"A morbid impulse, in fact, to which he
succumbed, and by which he lost a good
right hand. This incident suggests many
things besides proving the peculiar nature
and power of morbid impulses; such things.
for instance, as a law of sympathy on a scale
hitherto undreamt of, as we'll as musical
tune pervading all things. - ChamJer's Jour,
Year: 1876

men, Martin Farrell, member of the City
Council, who presided at the former meeting
and who seems TO be anxious to gain some
notoriety to himself in this matter, delivered
an in6ammatory harangue endeavoring to
persuade the workmsn to extreme measures
unless their demands were complied with
At the close of his speech the audience showed
their appreciation of it by calling on negro
boot-black, named Charlie Alexander, who
spoke mass of incoherent stuff without any
sense in it much to the amusement of the
listeners. The meeting was very noisy and
disorderly one.


Work was resumed on the reservoir on
Wednesday morning, and about eighty-fve
men employed.
Year: 1876

THE Cynic is a man who never sees good
quality in man, and never fails to see bad
one. There is scarcely thing but what he
can find flaws and imperfections in. One Of
this class has just been completely defeated
Clothing and after minute inspection, hon
estly confessed it was the best quality and most
stylish outfit he had ever seen for the low
price at which it was procured. Bargains
every day at the reliable Bazaar of BENNET L
Co., Tower Hall, 5ls Market Street, Philadel-
phia. Walk in under the Large Clock.
Year: 1876

COMPLAINING ABOUT HEAVY CRoPs.
Kansas is complaining that her crop
of cereals this year is too enormously
heavy for utilization. Millions of bush
els Of wheat will have to be lost, the
farmers say, because it ripens too fast,
and cannot be got to market; and as
to corn, the yield is so great that vast
quantities will have to be used as fuel
during the winter.
Year: 1876

P. Mundy sold seventy.six tickets and
won the gold badge offered by the Shields
Library.


Yesterday had such bad cold that I
could not speak. used DR.. Bulls cough
syrup, and to-day am as well as ever. 1t
only cost me rs cents.


A man selling cement yesterday at the
corner of Fifth and Market streets, tested
and defed the strength of all who came
along to break any article merded by this
cement until colored man came along and
snapped things almost at will.
Many gentleman going home, compari-
lively sober has been confused at the north
west corner of Ninth and Orange streets,
as the lamp at that corner indicates as Or
ange street what we have always been
taught to consider as Ninth street, and
Ninth street as Orange street. Our educa
tion has probably been neglected.
Year: 1876

A full attendance Of the members OF the
jefferson Democratic Club is requested at
the meeting to night. The new constitution
will be acted upon, and other important
business brought before the club.
Year: 1876

Yesterday the Harlin Il Hollingsworth
Company shipped two post office cars they
have just finished for the Estrada de Ferro
Dom Pedro II Railroad OF Brazil There were
shipped at the same time four narrow gague
passenger cars, two first. class and two
St cond- class, for branch of the first men.
toned road. The company are also build
Ing three other narrow gague passenger
cars for another road in Brazil,
Year: 1876

The attendance at the fair of the Ameri.
can Rifles last night, was unusually large,
owing in . measure to the announcement
that The company would give an exhibition
drill, and we are pleased to say that the
military evolutions as performed BY them,
was satisfactory In every particular, and
reflects great credit upon the officers for
their skill. and the men for their patience
in the study Of military tactics.
Year: 1876

Remit by Express. Postal Order, Bank
Draft Certified Check. Registered Letter. OF
payable to the order Of the Secretary OF the
Industrial Exhibition Company, u East nth
street. New York. Specially chartered BY the
state Of New York, for the purpose Of build
Year: 1876

A Lii BONDS PARTICIPATE IN EACH
n series drawing until redeemed.
Each Bond will receive more than its cost


All the risk purchaser runs is the loss Of a
portion Of the interest.
A whole Bond must receive one Of the fol-
lowing Premiums:
Year: 1876

TOIu Clc loTOIlIO OlODt.


A remarkable incident occurred at
Brown & Halls sawmill, in Acton,
while pine log was being sawed up
into lumber. The outside slab and
one board had been cut of, and while
the workmen were turning over the
log they were surprised to see large
toad poke his head out of hole in
which he was imbedded, and where
he had barely escaped being cut up
by the saw. How the stranger got
there was mystery, as he was COM
pletely encased in the wood, with no
possible means of ingress or egress.
As the log was the fourth or fifth
from the butt of the tree, his position
must have been at least fifty or sixty
feet from the ground, and he had no
doubt grown up with it from infancy,
being probably hundreds of years
old. The animal was quite fat, and
nearly as large as mans hand. He
was perfectly blind, but when taken
from his bed he made use of his
limbs to crawl away. The tree was
perfectly sound with the exception OF
a decayed spot of about a foot in
length below the hollow place in
which he was imbedded. How did
he get there, and what did he live on!