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Year: 1872

KEEPING CREAM Next in import
ance to having the milk perfectly pure
and sweet, and freed from all animal
OdOrs, comes the matter Of keeping the
cream after it is taken off the milk. In
the first place, the less milk there is in
the cream at the time it is set in the
cream jar, the better 4 great deal of
carelcssness is shown in this matter,
for be it known that milk makes cheese.
while the cream only makes butter, and
the more milk there IS in the cream at
churning time, the more cheesy-havOrcd
will be the butter, and therefore the
more likely to spoil afterwards unless
excessively salted. Really pure good
butter requires very little salt. while
butter as ordinarily made will soon spoil
unless well salted or kept covered with
brine. Secondly, the cream jar must he
of the very best quality of stone ware
thick glass would be still better: it
must have a cover that viii exclude all
dust and insects. Thirdly, the cream
jar should be kept in q place where no
nOXiOus OdOTs or gasses can be absorbed
when the jar is open to add more cream
and also where the temperature can be
kept cool and equable, say at about 60
degrees; lastly, the cream IS to be made
into better as soon as it just begins to
sour, and when the jar is emptied it is
to be thoroughly cleaned aud scalded in
boiling water before being again used.
Year: 1872

CCLTIvATING MIXED GRAssEs.-Mr.
George Sinclair, in an essay on grasses.
gives the correct and natural reason why
mixed grasses will form a denser sod
than single species II Is that Individual
plants of the same species viii not grow
close to each other for any length of time,
however thicElvplanted from seed, in
one or two seasons Intermediate plants
decay and leave vacant spaces, which
are soon filled up with spurious grasses.
weeds or moss hut when a variety of
different species adapted to the soil are
mixed together they grow close, form a
dense bottom, and grow permanent.
Year: 1872

A SINGULAR SToRY.-Some two years
ago a young man residing in this city
married one of the fair daughters of
Troy. One child, little girl, was the
issue Of the marriage. Trouble came
between the man and wife very soon,
and about two months ago he got di


vorce on the ground of adultry, but the
wife had the custody of the child
About three weeks ago the husband got
possession of the child, without the wife's
knowledge, and took the little girl out
to Rochester to live with his (the hus-
band's) aunt. He remained there with
the child. The wife at length learned
where the child was secreted, and her
friends furnished her with money to go
after her. By mistake, she left the cars
eight miles this side of Rochester, and
went on foot to that city, where, from
directions given her, she found the house
where the child was secreted, in the
suburbs. As she came to the house she
saw her husband playing in the yard
with the child. She ran for the little
girl, and the husband, seeing her ap-
proach, caught up the child and ram
The wife pursued, and tainted three
times while in pursuit, the last time so
as not to be able to move. Some twenty
of the neighbors had joined in the pur-
suit, and some of them now told the hus-
band that he must stop. He drew re-
volver, and said he would shoot any one
that came near him. Finally he agreed
to take the child back to the house, and
did SO, the wife accompanying him.
Then it was arranged that they should
come to Troy together, and bring the
child with them. The wife was pleased
with this arrangement. On the way
out, the husband said he would 90 back
and the wife might take the child, but
he would not live with her. He went
out of the car and pretended to leave the
train. The loving wife thereupon faint
ed again. By and by the husband, who
had only gone into a rear car, came in,


and another courtship began. They ar
rived here in due time, and last Thurs
day they were married, and now are as
happy as two turtle doves.-7roy Press.
Year: 1872

MARK OF ILL-BREEDING.-There is
no better test of ill-breeding than the
practice of interrupting another in con-
versation, by speaking or commencing a
remark before another has fully closed;
no well-bred person ever does it, nor
continues conversation long with one
who does. The latter finds an interest
ing conversation abruptly waived, closed
or declined by the former, without sus-
pecting the cause. A we'll bred person
will not even interrupt one who is in
respects greatly inferior. 1t is amusing
to see persons priding themselves on the
gentility of their manners, and putting
forth all their efforts to appear to advan-
tage in many other respects, so readily
betray all in this respect.
Year: 1872

HUNGRY INDIANS.-Red Cloud crowd
of Red rascals got as far as New York
the other day, on their comfortable jaunt
all over the land at government expense,
and stopped at the Grand Central Ho-
tel. They made a sensation at supper:
Big Foot made terrible onslaught
on the cold chicken, and ate nearly three
pounds of that dainty foul. High Bear
demolished two jars of chow-chow, and
made himself so sick that the other
braves grunted at him in high savage
glee. Red Fox, who seemed to be the
wit of the party, filled his coffee with
half a cruet full of cayenne pepper, and
imagined Immediately afterwards that
he had swallowed the Evil Spirit. The
squaw of Lone Wolf, Mrs. Ear-of-C Corn,
took quite fancy to the cold boiled
ham, and punished two pounds of that
solid commodity. Stabber, who justifes
his very sanguinary name by his fero-
cious looks, manifested ravishing de-
light at the sight of huge dish of
strawberries and cream, and appropri-
ated the entire contents without saving
grace. During the meal Red Cloud, as
became his dignity, maintained the great
est decorum. Red Dog ate in dismal
silence. Blue Horse left the table first
in order, and was followed by his chum
Fed Leaf. Daylight carried away four
bananas to regale himself in corner,
and the remaining braves, accompanied
by the two ladies, retired in body to
their rooms, which are somewhat more
palatial in aspect than the wigwams from
whence they came, on the Fork of the
North Platte.


Red Dog, the second chief of the par
ty in Importance, is the savage who, il
command of party of Sioux years ago
lay in wait in the underbrush some dis
tance from Fort Fetterman for a company
of Col. Carrington's regiment, ninety
six in number, who went out to gathe
wood. Not one of these good men anc
true, ever returned to tell the tale o
that dreadful slaughter. They met Rec
Dogs war party and were massacred t,
man. And there sat this savage, will
his cunning eye and evil face glooming
and perhaps thinking of the number o
scalps hanging in his wigwam in far Of
Wyoming.
Year: 1872

The Roanoke Times savagely goes
for some body after the following style.
We know how it is ourselves, but never
knew before iQs5 precisely how to do
the subject justice The Times. how
ever, does the whole matter up neat
iy lin nat shelL'-Uear it,


when a man stalks into our office.
and with the impudence of the devil asks
for the last Times and him not a sub
-criber, ws feel like jumping down his
hroat a man that Is clearly able to
pay fhe small pittauce Of four cents q
week receiving the news OF his own and
other sections and sneak around print
ing Office or his neighbor's house to bur,
row what be is too cussed stingy to paw
for, should be made to stand on his head
four days q cent day) out Of every
week, aud repeat the last speech made in
congress.
Year: 1872

This question has been frequently
asked Us Of late by parties seeing men
ton of different Railroad charters, point
ing TO Hickman; and We Of course, are
unable to answer.


There is a prospect for other roads
but whether they will ever be built. or
not, depends upon the future and various
causes.


We have a charter for a road and levee
from Hickman to Tiptonville, the build
ing of which depends, mainly, upon the
acceptance of the provisions of tie pres
ent charter by the Kentucky aud Ten
nessee lard owners affected. IF the levee
tax IS voted, it is believed that with this
al. .the means can be raised for its
speei, NouildiDg The success of this
enterprise will bring more trade to Hick-
man than all the other enterprises
spoken Of


The extension Of the Iron Mountain
railroad from some point in Missouri TO
Hickman, IS considered By some certain !;
but so far as we know, depends altogeth
er upon the speculations and opinions Of
the railroad men interested.


We have charter for the extension
of the Paducah and Elizabethtown road
from Tennessee river to Hickman, which
i nreferred bv the counties along the
line over the other routes in coutemPla
tion, aud We believe that if respectable
aid was given this road could be controll-
ed to this point Whether this will be
done or not, we don't pretend to say.


Indeed, we have a prospect, and a
most startling necessity for railroad
South, connecting with the Holly Spring T
and Brownsville, or some one Of the
Southern lines; and it is believed that
more aid would be given to such line
than to any other By our people.


So we have railroad prospects plenty
if they could be met and worked with an
active, liberal spirit. If selfshne=s is TO .
control the times; If we are to expect
other people, and other corporations to
tax themselves ana furnish all the
to run down here and ask the
prietlege Of improving our country, then
there Is not even prospect Of obtaining
any mare railroads.
Year: 1872

81 DISGUSTING HABIr.-There are those who
chew tobacco that attend divine services not
3nto the Lords Sanctuary with quid of the
weed In their mouths. splitting about
half gallon. perhaps more, tobacco juice be-
tween the pews wherein they may be seat
I'd. very much to the disgust Of those who do
bot use the article. and greatly to the chagrin
And modification Of the ladies who may hap
pen thereafter to be seated III the same place
ppon finding their dresses solled with tobac-
tsspittle. And besides it should be remen,-
bered that to do this thing Is to be guilty Of
y breach ofgood breeding. We allude thus to
shis habit that 1t may not be longer indulged
4n Before going into the Church House, do
bot fail to displace your tobacco.
Year: 1872

DEAR Eotro R:-As the time approaches
for the annual gathering to show trib-
ute of respect to the nations dead, my
thoughts have gone back one year. And
I desire to ask If we are TO have the usual
ceremony Of strewing beautiful flowers
upon the graves of the brave dead, and
then fellow the same with grand "Bal
Chainptrc." In some parts of our country
tho day selected for this solemn ceremony
is the Holy Sabbath, and certainly il
seems to me that il would be a
most appropriate day for such service.
If we are to have the same scenes enacted
that we had last year, am in favor OF u
general postponment OF Decorations in
this locality, but hope there will be
very different programme this year
should those managing such matters cal
the people together for such sacred pur
pose


l am satisfied there will be much
smaller attendance than there was las
year, which small attendance was entire
ly due to the sacreligious way it was en-
ded unless there be u change.


Very. Respectfully.


Cairo, Ills, May II, 1872. 7. Y. z.
Year: 1872

DOLLY WARDEN has become rs great .
nuisance as base ball. we would as soon
be hit on the head with base ball as see a
Dolly Warden on a woman or hear the
name Of the huzzy mentioned.
Year: 1872

THE BULLETIN having induced the bar
bers to respect the Sabbath day, We shall
now devote our attention to the saloon
keepers and struggle with them, until they
will agree not to sell liquids on Sunday.
Why should not saloon keeper have one
day and night in seven to rest? He has
as much right to this boon as barber oil
any other man, and we insist he shall en-
joy it. We therefore ask the council t
enact an ordinance prohibiting any maj
within the corporate limits of the cit,
from desiring drink Of anything on Sun
day. This will accomplish the desired
end, and give our saloon keepers rest.
Year: 1872

We HAVE employed an editor whose es-
pecisl duty IL will BE- to abuse the weather
hereafter If the sun should continue TO
refuse to shine until next Tuesday, this
weather editor will stir the Old boy up
with three column article. We give the
weather fair warning. II it will persist
in its present mean and sullen mood i,
must take the consequences.
Year: 1872

The best place in town to buy your
shoes is at Blacks City Shoe Store, corne-
Eighth street and Commercial avenue
Ask for the BRoLAsxI Shop-made, and
you are warranted a good pair at q low
price. He is almost giving away Eastern
made boots and shoes, but he can't war
rant them. 2t.
Year: 1872

"THERE WAS comparative peace in the
police court yesterday. Two cases, which
grew out Of whiskoy, were all that dis
turbed tho placid;ty Of its calm waters.
This is tho report furnished to us in the
words of the only poetical policeman on
tho force
Year: 1872

THE SENATE SUBSTITUTE for the House
bill providing for the payment OF bounties TO
volunteers, passed that body yesterday, and
wo arc glad to know that the amendments
attached cover the objection heretofore
raised with regard TO the House bill, as II
provides that all soldiers enlisted prior TO
July %, 1851, shall bo entitled 10 the bounty.
We hope the House will take speedy action
in the matter.
Year: 1872

twenty-five years ago, says q letter
writer, a company Of young people,
farmers. sons and daughters, To- the
number Of thirty-two, drove in tile early
morning down 10 the ancient little city
OF Amboy, New jersey, to embark in a
sloop for IA sail down the waters OF one
of the prcttiest bays that wash the At
lantic coast. Arrived at Sandy Hook,
they feasied, fished and froicked and
fiirted, too, no doubt, for the wash-tub
and the dairy can never deprive the
daughters of Eve Of Their prerogaiive.
At the close Of the afternoon they pre-
pared for glorious bath in the surf of
Florida CIR, We, the young men retiring
round tie point, leaving their fair friends
IN unembuIrassed enjoyment of the sit.
uation. Upon their return the young
turner's saw sight that might well
strike terror to the stoulesl heart. The
cruel undertow had sucked the poor
girls down 10 their deaths, md the
waves had cast their bodies on to the
sands from whence they had dashed so
merrily into the rolling suri short half
hour before and not one II the whole
party was left alive, Sadly the young
men bore the remains OF sisters, friend
and sweetheart back to their homes, now
made desolate indeed, and widespread
was the grief and anguish in the hithel'-
to happy township Of Piscataway. There
was not a family that did not mourn the
loss of a beloved child and daughter;
and such was the shock produced by
the terrible occurrence throughout the
whole State Of New Jersey that the
memory of it is preserved to this day,
and the story told by those who listened
to it first, perhaps, from the lips OF
sorowful eyewitness.
Year: 1872

The Lords day is good day in which


to learn to love you nGighbor as your
self / do not think it is a great sin if
your neighbor has his side door open on
the Sabbath day for you to walk across
the hlwn and sit on his porch, and talk
with him Of seemly things. l think the
Lord likes that i do not think that if
your household is more radiant, and
your children wake and say, las I never
did, "Thank God, il is Sunday"-I
don't think that il you make it the best
day Of the week, and your children are
good nutured, aud joyful that they are
any the worse i believe in letting out
the harness n little. Ibelieve in making
the holes for the buckle a little lower
down. Let our Lords day be q church
day in the II orning and family day the
rest Of the time. think that we preach
too much. I think we overteach and
ovcrtax in the Sabbath school. think
we are making the Lnrd,s day lahnrinus-
lido not think we use Sunday enough
to make the iamlIy liner, sweeter, more
homogeneous, more social aud so more
religious. see many, many men who
come to church stern and stiff. They
would not for all the world ride in u
street car on Sunday--no; nor 60 over
the ferry on Sunday--no; nor do any
thing at home that made them agreeable
mol! I do not hold up their way Of
keeping the Sabbath as model Sum-
day is a day of household love- 1t isa
day in which the children ought to feel
that their fatEer aud mother never we've
so handsome before, and never so good.
1t is day in which ever part Of the
household should. at the going down of
the sun, be able to say, "Thank God for
this open door Of heaven, which hns
poured ou: so many happy hours on
us ."
Year: 1872

To the boy, the world beyond his i'm
mediate SURROUNDINGS is only picture
He does not know how real are the sor-
rows, the passions, The ambitions of men.
Its absorbing interest, its heroes and its
martyrs, are heard Of by him without
understanding, on with indifference


His sport, his lessons, bis home life, are
alone real, But there will come change
The ordinary slow growth into manhood,
with its business OF professional pursuits
and widening relations, or startling
event, such as the death of parent, or
some intellectual or spiritual appeal,
striking out the latent soul, Will make
vivid and earnest what was indistinct
and uninteresting. Like stercscopic
picture before it isl put in the storescopic,
the life Of men has no body or reality;
but when the hoy awakens as with the
picture within the instrument SO with
him. soldiy and naturalnesss will be
acquired by the external world, and Ee
will feel that it is henccGorth to live and
move amongst these grander and gravcr
forms. Many mistakes will lie commit,
false estimates will he form Of proper
ton and perspective, the earnestness of
new conceptions will hurry him into ex-
travagances and generous errors, but If
there is truth in his nature, and noble
ness in his spirit, just views will be
formed, and the day in which it is given
him to work will find him not unmind-
full of the responsibility which arises
from a knowledge of the coming night.
Year: 1872

/ herewith send thee my pocket clock,
which standeth in need OF thy friendly
correction. The last time he was at thy
friendly school, he was in no way re-
formed nor i'll the least benefited there
by; for I perceive by the index of his
mind that he is liar and the truth is
not in him; that his pulse is sometimes
slow, which betokeneth not even tenn
per; at other times it waxeth sluggish,
Notwithstanding I frequently urge him;
when he should I've on duly, as thou
knowest his hand dcnotelh, find him
slumbering, or, as the vanity of humaa
reason phrases it, I caught him mapping,
Examine him. therefore, and prove him,
I beseech thee, thoroughly, that thou
mayest, being we'll acquainted with his
inward frame ana disposition, draw him
from the error oi lis way and show him
the path where lie should go. 1t grieves
ne t t ink, ind VII ponder tier in
l am verify OF the opinion that his body
is foul, and the whole mass is curr1lpted.
Cleanse him, therefore, with thy charm
ing physic, from all pollution, that mny
vibrate and circulate according 10 the
truth I will place him for few days
under thy care, and pay for his board ms
thou requirest. I entreat thee, friend
John, to demean thyself On this occasion
with Judgment, according to the gift
which is in thee, and Prove thyself a
workman; and when thou lAyest thy
correcting hand upon him let it be
without passion, lest thou shouldst dive
him TO destruction Do thorY regulate
his motion for a time to come by the
motion of the light that rule;h the day,
and " hen thou findest him converted
from the error of his ways, and more
colfoi mable to the aforementioned
rules, then do thou senRhim home with
a just bill of chnrges'drawn out in the
spirit of moderation, and it shall be sent
to thee in the root of all evil.
Year: 1872

Some months ago a lot of Sioux In
dians robbed stage coach on the plains,
and found among the packages of freight
II clothes wringer. One of the chiefs
had observed certain beings grinding
terrific music out of machine with the
same kind Of crank as that upon the
wriuger, 20 n conviction seized his soul
that that was o barrel organ. He had
the wringer carefully carried back TO
camp, and he made up his mind that
from that day forward the silence of that
solitary wilderness was going to be
broken by n ceaseless round of tunes
and vibrations. First he grasped the
crank and began to turn it, in order to
show his braves how the thing was done.
lie revolved it for sixteen hours, but no
music came Then the other Indians
took hand, one after another, for n
week. Then the squaws were turned
on, but with 10 effect. -r..


Then the chief went out and stole a
mule and n thrcshing machine, and rig
ged mp lot of blocks and pulleys, and
ran belt over tie crank; then exploded
powder under the hind legs OF that mule,
SO that he kept charging up the inclined
plane Of that threashing machine, and
the wringer made sixty revolutions II
minute. But it wouldn't work. So
the chief came to the conclusion that the
concern was under some kind of curse,
and he ran out the medicine man, and
had war dance, and drove yellow pine
stakes through couple Of white cap


tiyes, and jumped some wild mysterious
muse on the drum. Then the medicine
man litched up the mule ngain, and.
after stniting the machine, he leaned up
against it while he mutlered an exorcsm


III a couple of minutes the rubber roll
lers cienched his breech clout and began
to haul lin in with his knees doubled
up against his face. When he got hall
way through he stuck, and the machine
stopped. He couldn't move, and the
chief was afraid to touch the wringer;
so the braves fell on tue doctor. and
iahbed him with knife, and scnlped
him; then they buried him and the ma


chine as they were. This was the last
attempt of the Sioux Indians to cult
vate the fine arts. ....... ...... "
Year: 1872

The man who stands upon his own
soil, who feels that by the laws OF the
land in which lie lives--by the laws OF
civilized nations-he is the rightful and
exclusive owner of the land which he
tills, is, by the constitution OF our ma
ture, under II wholesome influence not
easlly imbbed from any other eource


He feels-other things beng equal
more strongly than another the charac-
ter of man as lord of an animated
world. OF this great and wonderful
sphere. which, fashioned by the hand Of
God and upheld by His power, is rollins
through The heavens, part is his-his
from the centre of the sky. 1t is in the
space on which the generation before
moved in its round of duties, and he
feels himself connected by a visible link
with those who follow him, and to whom
he is to transmit a home. Perhaps his
farm has come down to him by his faith
ers. They have gone to their last home; !;
but he can trace their footsteps over the
scenes of his daily labors. The roof
which shelters him was reared by those
to whom he owes his being. Some in
teres,ing domestic tradition is connected
with every inclosnre. Thefavorite fruit
tree was planted by bis fathers hands


He sported in boyhood beside the brook
which winds through the meadow.
Through the field lies the path to the
village school Of earlier days He still
hears from the window the voice of the
Sabbath bell which called his father to
the house Of pra, er; and nearer at hand
is the spot where his parents were lnid
TO rest and where, when his time has
come, ne shall be laid by his children.
These are the feelings OF the owner of
the soil. Words cannot paint-gold
cannot buy them; they flow out of the
deepest foundation of the heart; they
are the life-springs of fresh, healthy and
generous national character.
Year: 1872

One of the saddest sights in this
season Of The year is young man who
has waited outside the church ofan even
ing until he is chilled through only TO
see his girl walk off with some rascal
who has been inside all the time roast
ing his sinful shins at the stove.